{"id":1030103,"date":"2026-08-20T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030103"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:51:38","slug":"govt-asks-telecom-firms-not-to-issue-sims-beyond-9-connection-limit-emphasizes-photo-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/govt-asks-telecom-firms-not-to-issue-sims-beyond-9-connection-limit-emphasizes-photo-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt asks telecom firms not to issue SIMs beyond 9-connection limit, emphasizes photo-checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 19 (ANI): The government has asked telecom service providers (TSPs) to put in place measures to prevent individuals from obtaining mobile connections beyond the permitted limit of nine connections, with a new system coming into effect from Monday next. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Communications and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in a circular that telecom companies will have to identify subscribers who seek a new mobile connection after reaching the maximum number allowed in their name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 19 (ANI): The government has asked telecom service providers (TSPs) to put in place measures to prevent individuals from obtaining mobile connections beyond the permitted limit of nine connections, with a new system coming into effect from Monday next. The Ministry of Communications and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in a circular that telecom companies will have to identify subscribers who seek a new mobile connection after reaching the maximum number allowed in their name.<\/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-1030103","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\/1030103","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=1030103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030119,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030103\/revisions\/1030119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}