What is Telegram Premium? | Android Central

What is Telegram Premium?Best answer: Telegram Premium is an optional subscription tier for the Telegram multi-platform messaging app that unlocks exclusive features, like double

limits, larger file uploads, faster downloads, and more. The funds acquired from Telegram Premium subscription will also be used to help the service continue to develop its

offerings and maintain a free tier for those who wish to stick with the basics.What is Telegram?Why you can trust Android Central Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and

comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test.Telegram is a multi-platform messaging app with more than 700 million monthly

active users, grown completely from personal recommendations: the company does not spend any money on advertising. Founded by Pavel Durov, a Russian entrepreneur, Telegram has

been around since late 2014, with a primary focus on privacy and encryption within the “secret chats” and calls. Based on an open-source API, Telegram works like any other

messaging app. Once you are connected to other users (via your username, phone number, or even a temporarily generated QR code), you can have individual and group conversations,

make audio and video calls, send files, images, videos, stickers, and more. Because all messages are stored on a secure server in Telegram, one of the best messaging apps for

Android, you can access them from any device on which you have downloaded Telegram, from a work phone to a personal phone, a tablet, and more (it works with both Android and

iOS.What do you get with Telegram Premium?(Image credit: Chris Wedel / Android Central)With the upgraded Telegram Premium option, which costs $4.99 per month (price may differ

outside of the U.S.) you get additional features. These include 4GB file uploads versus the 2GB standard limit and continuing with unlimited storage in the Telegram Cloud. A 4GB

file, Telegram notes, could be four hours of 1,080p video or 18 days’ worth of high-quality audio. Premium also includes increased limits for just about everything, including

following up to 1,000 channels (versus 500 with the free version), creating up to 20 chat folders with up to 200 chats each, adding a fourth account to any Telegram app, pinning up

to 10 chats in the main list (5 with free), and saving up to 10 stickers as favorites. You can also reserve up to 20 t.me/name links (10 with the free version) and up to 400 GIFs

(200 with free). Telegram Premium also affords faster downloads (access content in the cloud storage “as fast as your network can keep up,”) access to exclusive stickers,