{"id":1009095,"date":"2026-05-22T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009095"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:10:03","slug":"hmd-first-to-bring-dots-sanchar-saathi-app-to-smartphone-says-installation-fully-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/hmd-first-to-bring-dots-sanchar-saathi-app-to-smartphone-says-installation-fully-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"HMD first to bring DoT&#8217;s Sanchar Saathi app to smartphone, says installation fully optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Human Mobile Devices (HMD) on Thursday became the first smartphone manufacturer to offer consumers the option to install the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 (DoT) Sanchar Saathi application in its Vibe 2 5G handset, in a bid to boost privacy and safety. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the first ones to bring Sanchar Saathi at the time of the boot itself in the HMD Vibe 2 smartphone. Through a convenient selection menu, users can choose if they want to install this application or not,\u201d Ravi Kunwar, vice-president (VP) &amp; CEO, HMD India and APAC, told ETTelecom exclusively<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Human Mobile Devices (HMD) on Thursday became the first smartphone manufacturer to offer consumers the option to install the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 (DoT) Sanchar Saathi application in its Vibe 2 5G handset, in a bid to boost privacy and safety. \u201cWe are the first ones to bring Sanchar Saathi at the time of the boot itself in the HMD Vibe 2 smartphone. Through a convenient selection menu, users can choose if they want to install this application or not,\u201d Ravi Kunwar, vice-president (VP) &amp; CEO, HMD India and APAC, told ETTelecom exclusively<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009119,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009095\/revisions\/1009119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}