{"id":1010116,"date":"2026-05-27T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010116"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:00:42","slug":"dot-directs-pm-wani-stakeholders-to-roll-out-qr-based-laptop-login-short-duration-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/dot-directs-pm-wani-stakeholders-to-roll-out-qr-based-laptop-login-short-duration-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT directs PM-WANI stakeholders to roll out QR-based laptop login, short-duration packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday directed Prime Minister\u2019s Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) stakeholders to roll out QR code-based authentication for secondary devices and launch short-duration Wi-Fi packs as part of reforms to drive the ease of Internet access for citizens. <\/p>\n<p>The QR-based authentication will allow users to connect to PM-WANI Wi-Fi by scanning a QR code on the login page using an authenticated smartphone application, reducing friction for a seamless experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday directed Prime Minister\u2019s Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) stakeholders to roll out QR code-based authentication for secondary devices and launch short-duration Wi-Fi packs as part of reforms to drive the ease of Internet access for citizens. The QR-based authentication will allow users to connect to PM-WANI Wi-Fi by scanning a QR code on the login page using an authenticated smartphone application, reducing friction for a seamless experience.<\/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-1010116","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\/1010116","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=1010116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010117,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010116\/revisions\/1010117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}