Good News for Telegram Users! Premium subscription plan became much cheaper; Know what are the benefits

Telegram slashes Premium subscription prices in India: Encrypted messaging platform Telegram has reduced the monthly subscription fee for premium users in India from Rs 469 to Rs 179. In a message sent to its users in the country, the platform announced a waiver of subscription fee. The company wants to focus on growing aggressively in a country where WhatsApp has around 500 million users. India is one of the major markets for Telegram, with over 700 million monthly active users globally.

India has over 120 million Telegram users

According to third-party data, Telegram has over 120 million users in India, and aims to compete with the ever-increasing WhatsApp users. According to a recent research by TechArk, at least one in five respondents in India prefer Telegram over WhatsApp for a variety of reasons, including making it secure and respecting privacy, features like channels, allowing users in a single group and large Including sharing of size files.

More than 32 percent of the respondents said that they send important and secret messages on Telegram. Globally, Telegram's monthly subscription ranges from $4.99 to $6 for premium users.

New update came last month

Last month, the encrypted messaging app rolled out a new update that gave users more ways to use the new emoji to express how they're feeling. The company said that premium users can take reactions from an infinite selection of custom emoji.