Many have probably seen the news that Pavel Durov phone number starts with +999.

Well, that number is actually a test number. It used to be available to anyone on Telegram’s test servers, and on production it was reserved for Telegram devs only.
It’s not some big secret — there’s plenty of info about +999 online.

Right now, test numbers like that are disabled even on test servers, and only Telegram developers can use them. So no, you can’t sign up for Telegram using one.

This isn’t some new batch of “anonymous” phone numbers (like the +888 ones). Why Pavel chose a test number isn’t clear — maybe he just liked it 🙃

@telelakel