If you don’t want to spend $5 a month on Telegram’s premium service, but still want the features it offers, there’s a new (albeit, really bad) way to achieve your goal.
Telegram will now allow people to access its premium subscription tier for free if they agree to allow Telegram to use their phone numbers to send one-time passwords (OTP) to other Telegram users. Telegram calls the service its “Peer-to-Peer Login” and promises to only use any given number up to 150 times to send users a passcode to log in to their accounts.
