{"id":1018974,"date":"2026-07-04T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018974"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:29:32","slug":"meta-team-meets-meity-officials-over-whatsapp-usernames-feature-to-submit-reply-within-timeline-sources-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/meta-team-meets-meity-officials-over-whatsapp-usernames-feature-to-submit-reply-within-timeline-sources-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta team meets MeitY officials over WhatsApp usernames feature, to submit reply within timeline: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): Representatives of Meta met officials of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday following the government&#8217;s notice over the proposed rollout of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, ministry officials apprised Meta of the government&#8217;s concerns regarding the feature during the meeting. As the company has been given three days to furnish a detailed explanation, Meta will submit its final response within the stipulated timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): Representatives of Meta met officials of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday following the government&#8217;s notice over the proposed rollout of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, sources said. According to sources, ministry officials apprised Meta of the government&#8217;s concerns regarding the feature during the meeting. As the company has been given three days to furnish a detailed explanation, Meta will submit its final response within the stipulated timeline.<\/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-1018974","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\/1018974","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=1018974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018991,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018974\/revisions\/1018991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}