Telegram begins to inpose charges of $0.01 in TON on New Users to Authenticate Phone Numbers Worldwide .... More details.
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Telegram Gateway is the cheapest way to verify phone numbers of users. It allows any service to send authorization codes through Telegram instead of traditional SMS – offering a powerful and convenient way to lower costs while increasing the security and delivery speed of your codes to Telegram’s 950+ million monthly active users.
"Telegram has been paying atrocious rates to verify its almost billion users, so others won’t have to. Our prices are so low that I’m not sure we can meaningfully profit from this. But I hope this will make the world more efficient and reduce costs for many services worldwide 🤝" . Pavel Durov states
