In this paper we consider a class of non-local in time telegraph equations. Recently, the second author and Vergara proved that the fundamental solutions of such equations can be interpreted as the probability density function of a stochastic process. We study the asymptotic behavior of the variance of this process at large and short times. In this context, we develop a method to construct new examples such the variance has a slowly growth behavior, extending the earlier results. Finally, we show that our approach can be adapted to define new integro-differential operators which are interesting in sub-diffusion processes.