Telegram subscription plan: Finally, a new subscription plan for Telegram will be available. It’s been verified by Telegram’s CEO that the app’s premium version will be available by the end of June. The majority of Telegram’s revenue, according to Durov, comes from the app’s users, not marketers. As a result, starting in June, some features will require a fee. For the time being, Telegram won’t be charging for any of its current services. There will be no price for any of the new features.
“After giving it some thought, we determined that the best way to enable our most demanding customers get more while keeping our existing services free is to make those higher restrictions a paid option,” Pavel Durov said on the Telegram channel while discussing the new Premium plan. Telegram Premium is a new membership service available starting this month that gives users access to more functionality, speed, and resources. As a bonus, Telegram supporters will be able to get their hands on new features first.
User requests to “increase the present restrictions even higher” prompted Telegram to develop premium services, Durov claimed. Also, he said, “The feature will bring additional speed and resources.” Telegram’s infrastructure and bandwidth expenses would be unsustainable if all constraints were eliminated for everyone, according to him. As a result, he reasoned that the only way to raise the caps would be to charge for them.
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He went on to say that certain of the Telegram Premium features would be available to everyone, regardless of whether or not they have a Telegram Premium subscription. To respond in the same way, users will be able to touch to add Premium replies already pinned to a message and view them in extra-large size, according to Durov.
Custom notification noises, customised silence times, an auto-delete option in profiles, responses in forwarded messages, and message translations for iOS were all launched last month as part of Telegram’s feature expansion.
In 2021, India accounted for 22% of Telegram’s lifetime installations. Only until WhatsApp’s unclear regulations came into effect did Telegram’s popularity skyrocket. Many WhatsApp users who had no idea about the revised terms of service and privacy rules have switched to Telegram out of concern for their personal information being compromised.
