{"id":1014012,"date":"2026-06-12T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014012"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:09:57","slug":"indian-doctor-billed-for-china-roaming-while-visiting-sikkim-border-sparks-outcry-over-telecom-lapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/indian-doctor-billed-for-china-roaming-while-visiting-sikkim-border-sparks-outcry-over-telecom-lapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian doctor billed for \u2018China\u2019 roaming while visiting Sikkim border, sparks outcry over telecom lapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: An Indian physician has been billed for international roaming charges after his mobile phone reportedly picked up a Chinese network signal during a brief family visit to Nathu La pass in Sikkim, sparking fresh concerns over border-area telecom coverage and billing practices. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Sundar Sankaran, who was holidaying in Sikkim with his family, said he received a hefty bill claiming he had used his phone in China, though he remained well within Indian territory. The incident occurred when the group spent only a few minutes at Nathu La, a high-altitude pass near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: An Indian physician has been billed for international roaming charges after his mobile phone reportedly picked up a Chinese network signal during a brief family visit to Nathu La pass in Sikkim, sparking fresh concerns over border-area telecom coverage and billing practices. Dr Sundar Sankaran, who was holidaying in Sikkim with his family, said he received a hefty bill claiming he had used his phone in China, though he remained well within Indian territory. The incident occurred when the group spent only a few minutes at Nathu La, a high-altitude pass near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014012","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=1014012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014014,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014012\/revisions\/1014014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}