{"id":1018466,"date":"2026-07-02T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018466"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:48:09","slug":"centre-tells-meta-not-to-roll-out-whatsapp-username-feature-until-consultation-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/centre-tells-meta-not-to-roll-out-whatsapp-username-feature-until-consultation-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre tells Meta not to roll out WhatsApp username feature until consultation: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday issued a notice to Meta regarding roll-out of the \u201cusernames\u201d feature on WhatsApp in India, highly-placed sources said. <\/p>\n<p>They said Meta has been asked to furnish a detailed explanation on the \u201cusernames\u201d feature within three days. <\/p>\n<p>It has been directed not to roll out the \u201cusernames\u201d feature until consultation on the matter is over, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday issued a notice to Meta regarding roll-out of the \u201cusernames\u201d feature on WhatsApp in India, highly-placed sources said. They said Meta has been asked to furnish a detailed explanation on the \u201cusernames\u201d feature within three days. It has been directed not to roll out the \u201cusernames\u201d feature until consultation on the matter is over, sources said.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018466","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=1018466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018483,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018466\/revisions\/1018483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}