Telegram has reduced its monthly subscription fee India For premium users, it has been reduced from Rs 469 to Rs 179.
In a message sent to its users in the country, the platform announced a waiver of subscription fees, as it focuses on aggressively growing in a country where WhatsApp has around 500 million users.
India is one of Telegram’s major markets, with over 700 million monthly active users globally.
According to third-party data, Telegram has over 120 million users in India, and aims to rapidly tap into the ever-growing WhatsApp user base.
According to a recent research by TechARC, at least one in five respondents in India prefer Telegram over WhatsApp for various reasons, including making it secure and respecting privacy, features like channels, allowing users in a single group and large Includes sharing of shape files. ,
More than 32 percent of the respondents said that they send important and secret messages on Telegram.
Globally, Telegram’s monthly subscription for premium users ranges from $4.99 to $6.
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 — with infinite reactions and emoji statuses.
The company said that premium users can take reactions from an infinite selection of custom emoji.
With the new update, group admins can control whether custom reactions can be used in their groups.
Now, premium users can add an animated emoji status displayed next to their name – to let everyone know instantly how they’re feeling or what they’re doing.
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