Those unlockable Telegram options that confirmed up with the app’s beta model in May will quickly be out there for paying customers. Telegram founder Pavel Durov has confirmed that the app is launching a subscription plan known as Telegram Premium someday this month. While Durov did not talk about the precise advantages that include the plan, he mentioned it would give paying customers additional options, pace and assets, in addition to first entry to the app’s newest choices.
Durov defined that lots of people have been asking the service to lift the boundaries on its chats, media and file uploads. However, doing so for everybody would result in huge site visitors and server prices past what it may afford. Telegram apparently got here to the conclusion that the one means it may give its “most demanding followers” extra whereas holding its current options free is to supply these raised limits as a paid choice.
The service’s founder has additionally assured customers in his announcement that Telegram will nonetheless be releasing new free options regardless of having a paid tier. Further, even free customers will be capable of take pleasure in among the Premium choice’s new futures, together with having the ability to view larger-than-usual paperwork, media and stickers despatched by paying members. A earlier report by tech publication Beebom says Premium subscribers may have the potential to add recordsdata as much as 4GB in dimension and can take pleasure in as much as twice a non-paying customers’ limits in the case of the variety of channels they’ll be a part of, amongst different issues. Beebom additionally says a Premium subscription will value $5 a month, although we cannot know for positive till the choice launches.
Durov ended his announcement with:
“While our experiments with privacy-focused adverts in public one-to-many channels have been extra profitable than we anticipated, I consider that Telegram must be funded primarily by its customers, not advertisers. This means our customers will at all times stay our major precedence.”