It’s been known for a long time that the Telegram works on the method of payment for the service. We already informed about it at the end of last year, and although we have not yet received any further official information about it, that it was the creator of the service himself, who revealed that it was already being worked on, made it clear to us that sooner or later he said launch. And now we know it will be sooner rather than later.

In a publication on the official Telegram channel on the platform itself, its manager Pavel Durov confirmed that Telegram Premium will debut later this month. The report begins by highlighting the history of the service and what it offers its users from its launch to the present. And this is true and indisputable, because in many ways it is a service with the highest limits.

Durov further states that despite this, there are users who do not have enough and then demand even more, something that is economically unsustainable for Telegram with its current modell. One solution, of course, would be to choose to fund the service with disruptive advertising models, but this is something that the service has ruled out since its inception and which it does not consider in the future, as it believes they would have a very negative impact on overall service quality. .

Thus, and according to what he proposes, the only solution to satisfy the demand of those users for whom what is now offered is not enough without jeopardizing the (of course economic) accounts of the Telegram. passes in order to determine the subscription modality, named Premium. In one way we can read the following:

«It allows anyone to purchase additional features, speed and resources. It will also allow users to support Telegram and join the club that receives the new features first.»

Most importantly, however, the same report clarifies that the launch of Telegram Premium will not result in loss of free account functionalitywhich will continue to operate as before. Yes, it’s true that the new features will arrive at Premium first, which we’ve seen in other services like Twitter Blue, but Paul says standard accounts will continue to improve:

«But don’t worry: all existing features are still free, and there are plenty of new free features on the way. In addition, users who do not subscribe to Telegram Premium will be able to take advantage of some of its benefits: for example, they will be able to see extra large documents, media and stickers sent to Premium users or click to add premium responses. already pinned to the message to respond in the same way.»