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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by perardi on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:17PM (#26468709)
“designed to work in low-bandwidth environments”

And I have actually experienced this, fairly frequently.

T-Mobile international roaming, at least on my provided corporate plan, is throttled to 128kbps. And Telegram works. Messages come through quickly, and it seems fairly smart about deferring media loading.

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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by tazjin on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:22PM (#26468780)
Yeah, I've been on occasionally shitty mobile networks in Africa for the last months and Telegram almost always works when other things don't. Experiencing this kind of connectivity for a while really is perspective-altering.
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