{"id":1026406,"date":"2026-08-05T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026406"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:43:52","slug":"no-more-free-upi-in-india-govt-weighs-fee-for-payments-above-rs-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/no-more-free-upi-in-india-govt-weighs-fee-for-payments-above-rs-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"No more free UPI in India? Govt weighs fee for payments above Rs 2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has moved a step closer to reintroducing merchant fees on transactions made through its popular Unified Payments Interface (UPI) after proposed changes to the country&#8217;s payments laws were introduced in parliament on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>UPI, one of the world&#8217;s largest real-time payments networks, processed 23.6 billion transactions worth 29.9 trillion rupees ($313.5 billion) in July, according to official data. Walmart&#8217;s (WMT.O), opens new tab PhonePe and Alphabet&#8217;s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google Pay dominate payments via UPI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has moved a step closer to reintroducing merchant fees on transactions made through its popular Unified Payments Interface (UPI) after proposed changes to the country&#8217;s payments laws were introduced in parliament on Tuesday. UPI, one of the world&#8217;s largest real-time payments networks, processed 23.6 billion transactions worth 29.9 trillion rupees ($313.5 billion) in July, according to official data. Walmart&#8217;s (WMT.O), opens new tab PhonePe and Alphabet&#8217;s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google Pay dominate payments via UPI.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026406","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=1026406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026425,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026406\/revisions\/1026425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}