{"id":1027457,"date":"2026-08-08T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027457"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:14:39","slug":"payments-council-of-india-assures-upi-will-continue-to-remain-free-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/payments-council-of-india-assures-upi-will-continue-to-remain-free-for-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Payments Council of India assures &#8220;UPI will continue to remain free for consumers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): Amid widespread discussion concerning transaction fees and merchant charges, the Payments Council of India (PCI) clarified that &#8220;UPI will continue to remain free for consumers&#8221; and that small merchants will not face charges for accepting digital payments. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Merchant service charges, where applicable, are commercial arrangements between merchants and payment service providers. They do not mean that consumers pay to use digital payments,&#8221; PCI posted on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): Amid widespread discussion concerning transaction fees and merchant charges, the Payments Council of India (PCI) clarified that &#8220;UPI will continue to remain free for consumers&#8221; and that small merchants will not face charges for accepting digital payments. &#8220;Merchant service charges, where applicable, are commercial arrangements between merchants and payment service providers. They do not mean that consumers pay to use digital payments,&#8221; PCI posted on X.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027457","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=1027457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027484,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027457\/revisions\/1027484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}