The developers of Telegram are planning in 2020 to present users messenger feature group video calling. About it reported in a press release Telegram.
"the Present regime of global insulation have shown the need for a reliable means to communicate in video mode. Video calls in 2020 such correspondence messages in 2013. There are applications that are either reliable, or comfortable, but do not combine these two qualities. We want to fix this, and we will focus on how to present the secure group video calling, in the year 2020", – stated in the message.
The exact timing of the introduction of new features in messenger are not specified.
Telegram previously reported that the number of messenger users per year increased by one third – at least once a month use 400 million people.
The messenger was established in 2013 by founder "Vkontakte" by Pavel Durov. 2018 Telegram is blocked on the territory of Russia in accordance with the court’s decision due to the fact that the leadership of the messenger refused to grant the FSB the encryption keys from the correspondence of the users.
In January 2018, it became known that Durov plans to hold ICO using a blockchain platform TON, creating it is a cryptocurrency, called Gram. To date, messenger has already borrowed about $1.7 billion in 2019 ongoing trial between the TON and the us authorities, which selling digital Gram tokens in the territory of the United States is prohibited indefinitely. Durov had previously asked to postpone the deadline of the launch of a TON of 30 April 2020.
