Telegram Premium launched for $4.99 per month

Telegram’s Premium tier is now available globally for $4.99/€5.49/INR 469 per month. Users who want to upgrade to Premium will have to update their Telegram app to version 8.8 and then head over to app settings and select the new Telegram Premium option.

Telegram says that its new subscription service helps support the free version of Telegram while also paying for all the new features in the Premium version of the app.

Here are all the new features available in Telegram Premium:

No Ads

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