{"id":1020788,"date":"2026-07-14T09:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020788"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:19:57","slug":"messaging-platforms-replies-received-it-secretary-on-username-notice-to-whatsapp-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/messaging-platforms-replies-received-it-secretary-on-username-notice-to-whatsapp-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"Messaging platforms\u2019 replies received: IT secretary on username notice to WhatsApp, Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging platforms have submitted their responses to notices served on the \u2018username\u2019 feature, and the government will disclose its stance on the issue after examining the replies received, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Three platforms \u2014 WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal \u2014 had come under regulatory glare after the government issued notices on the controversial username feature, that essentially allows people on the messaging platforms to communicate without sharing their phone numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging platforms have submitted their responses to notices served on the \u2018username\u2019 feature, and the government will disclose its stance on the issue after examining the replies received, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Monday. Three platforms \u2014 WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal \u2014 had come under regulatory glare after the government issued notices on the controversial username feature, that 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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020788","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\/1020788","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=1020788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020799,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020788\/revisions\/1020799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}