{"id":1019238,"date":"2026-07-07T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019238"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:56:28","slug":"whatsapp-gets-more-time-to-reply-to-username-notice-assures-no-india-rollout-till-talks-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/whatsapp-gets-more-time-to-reply-to-username-notice-assures-no-india-rollout-till-talks-end\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp gets more time to reply to username notice, assures no India rollout till talks end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has been granted more time to submit its response on the contentious &#8216;username&#8217; feature and assured the government that it will not roll it out in India until discussions are complete, according to sources. <\/p>\n<p>The popular messaging platform has been given three more days to file its reply to the government notice on the controversial feature as it sought more time to submit its response, sources told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has been granted more time to submit its response on the contentious &#8216;username&#8217; feature and assured the government that it will not roll it out in India until discussions are complete, according to sources. The popular messaging platform has been given three more days to file its reply to the government notice on the controversial feature as it sought more time to submit its response, sources told PTI.<\/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-1019238","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\/1019238","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=1019238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019257,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019238\/revisions\/1019257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}