{"id":1020231,"date":"2026-07-11T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020231"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:11:15","slug":"telegram-follows-suit-replies-to-centre-on-username-feature-after-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/telegram-follows-suit-replies-to-centre-on-username-feature-after-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram follows suit, replies to Centre on \u2018username\u2019 feature after WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After WhatsApp, messaging platform Telegram has also submitted its reply to the IT Ministry&#8217;s notice on the &#8216;username&#8217; feature, according to sources. <\/p>\n<p>Submissions of both WhatsApp and Telegram are currently being examined by the government, sources told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>The username feature essentially allows people on the messaging platforms to communicate without sharing their phone numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After WhatsApp, messaging platform Telegram has also submitted its reply to the IT Ministry&#8217;s notice on the &#8216;username&#8217; feature, according to sources. Submissions of both WhatsApp and Telegram are currently being examined by the government, sources told PTI. The username feature essentially allows people on the messaging platforms to communicate without sharing their phone numbers.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020231","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=1020231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020238,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020231\/revisions\/1020238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}