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 ...

Problems with SMS delivery from Telegram and WhatsApp are unlikely to significantly affect the popularity of these messengers in Russia and their accessibility to users, experts interviewed by ...

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 ...