WhatsApp's legal tussle with govt helps Telegram get a signal booster

Telegram is now number one in downloads, having pushed WhatsApp to fourth position

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Surajeet Das Gupta  |  New Delhi 

Facebook’s messenger app WhatsApp has gone to the Delhi High Court to challenge the government’s new rules to break-end-to-end encryption on grounds that they violate freedom of speech. But as the two prepare for a long legal battle, the chief beneficiary of the tussle could well be WhatsApp’s rival Telegram, which has seized the top slot among communication applications downloaded from Google Play in India, according to App Annie data, pushing WhatsApp to the fourth slot.

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First Published: Fri, May 28 2021. 06:10 IST
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