Telegram Needs Only Few Paid Subscribers to Cover Costs, Says Pavel Durov

The Telegram messaging app, utilized by a variety of Russian and Ukrainian officers in the course of the struggle, solely wants a small variety of paid subscribers to cowl its prices, founder Pavel Durov stated on Tuesday.

Telegram Premium service customers will get the next restrict for chats, media and file uploads, Durov stated on June 10, noting that paid subscriptions would make sure the app stays funded primarily by customers and never advertisers.

“The beauty of Telegram Premium is that if just 2.5 percent to 3 percent of our users sign up for this subscription, Telegram will cover its costs, supported purely by its users,” he stated on Telegram on Tuesday.

“This will herald a new, user-centric era in the history of social media services.”

Telegram and Signal have signed up extra messaging customers as a consequence of rising issues about privateness on bigger rival WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms. Telegram has 500 million month-to-month lively customers and is without doubt one of the 10 most downloaded apps on the earth, in keeping with its web site.

Telegram Premium — the paid subscription that brings extra options to the messaging app — has began rolling out to customers. The premium tier permits customers to entry as much as 4GB file uploads, sooner downloads, and the power to transform voice messages into textual content. Alongside the launch of the paid subscription, Telegram has launched an inventory of enhancements for all customers on the platform, together with those who should not buying the premium tier. The Dubai-based firm has additionally introduced that now it has over 700 million month-to-month lively customers.

In India, Telegram Premium is offered at Rs. 469 a month on the iPhone. Pricing of the premium subscription on Android is but to be introduced. It is probably going that the corporate would go together with a country-wise phased strategy.