Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to utilize their phone number as a relay for sending ...

Messaging app Telegram is offering a small subset of Android users the ability to get a free premium subscription—if they opt into letting Telegram use their phones to send up to 150 Telegram SMS ...

Telegram is looking to expand more of its platform's use as an instant messaging app and grow its revenue by introducing a phone number verification service which it is now offering to businesses. The ...

Telegram tests free Premium access by sending SMS codes via users' phones, raising privacy and security concerns. Limited to 100 messages/month to prevent bans. Users may face issues with GDPR, CCPA ...

Russian network operators have begun blocking SMS and calls from WhatsApp and Telegram. This is intended to block the codes necessary for 2-factor authentication (2FA) for new or existing accounts of ...