{"id":1017365,"date":"2026-06-29T08:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017365"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:46:00","slug":"are-vpns-really-a-necessary-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/are-vpns-really-a-necessary-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Are VPNs really a necessary tool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent Telegram ban in India on account of the NEET-UG re-examinations, which was lifted on June 22, a report by app intelligence for Appfigures found that VPN app downloads on the very first day of the ban, June 16-17, had risen by 49% in the country. Downloads of major VPN apps climbed to 208,000 in a single day, from a recently recorded daily average of 139,000 daily downloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent Telegram ban in India on account of the NEET-UG re-examinations, which was lifted on June 22, a report by app intelligence for Appfigures found that VPN app downloads on the very first day of the ban, June 16-17, had risen by 49% in the country. Downloads of major VPN apps climbed to 208,000 in a single day, from a recently recorded daily average of 139,000 daily downloads.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017365","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=1017365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017392,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017365\/revisions\/1017392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}