{"id":1020263,"date":"2026-07-11T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020263"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:30:49","slug":"meta-submits-reply-to-govt-on-whatsapp-usernames-feature-meity-examining-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/meta-submits-reply-to-govt-on-whatsapp-usernames-feature-meity-examining-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta submits reply to Govt on WhatsApp &#8216;usernames&#8217; feature; MeitY examining response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): Meta has submitted its reply to the central government regarding the proposed rollout of the WhatsApp &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature in India, sources told ANI. <\/p>\n<p>The response, received late on Wednesday night, is currently under examination by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A reply was received yesterday night from WhatsApp. It is under examination, as of now,&#8221; sources familiar with the matter told ANI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): Meta has submitted its reply to the central government regarding the proposed rollout of the WhatsApp &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature in India, sources told ANI. The response, received late on Wednesday night, is currently under examination by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). &#8220;A reply was received yesterday night from WhatsApp. It is under examination, as of now,&#8221; sources familiar with the matter told ANI.<\/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-1020263","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\/1020263","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=1020263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020265,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020263\/revisions\/1020265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}