Announced a few months ago and finally dated this month The Telegram has begun to include its new premium user level featurepayment mode with additional features as the instant messaging platform evolves to try to monetize part of its growing user base.

Some of the new announced features will include premium users send files up to 4 GB and allow them to faster file downloads, without specifying the improvements offered in this case. In addition, paying customers will be able to watch up to 1,000 channels as well as form 20 chat folders with up to 200 cottages in each, plus the ability to add up to four accounts in one application and pin up to 10 chats. Some features that will simply duplicate the current capabilities of users.

In addition, Telegram Premium users will have the opportunity convert voice messages into texts, access exclusive stickers and responses, and use animated images as profile images. More importantly, this subscription will allow completely ad-free user experience. And this is because, although we are already used to this freedom in the basic application, in some markets sponsored news is displayed on large public channels.

As the application developers themselves said, The advent of Telegram Premium is not driven by the desire for profitbut it is a measure driven by the pursuit of sustainability «primarily driven by its users, not advertisers” while searching “respond to user requests for additional storage / bandwidth«.

This announcement is finally accompanied by official rates for the subscription service, which they arrive at a price of 5.49 euros per month, which can be converted to a total of 65.88 euros per year. So it’s worth noting that this will be an auto-renewed subscription, so if we don’t cancel it, we’ll continue to pay for it even if we stop using the app.