{"id":1032772,"date":"2026-09-02T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032772"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:39:24","slug":"phonepes-new-upi-service-lets-feature-phone-users-make-payments-without-internet-heres-how-to-use-the-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/phonepes-new-upi-service-lets-feature-phone-users-make-payments-without-internet-heres-how-to-use-the-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePe\u2019s new UPI service lets feature phone users make payments without internet: Here\u2019s how to use the feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe today announced the launch of PhonePe UPI 123Pay, enabling UPI payment capabilities for feature phone users across India without requiring an internet connection. With this, PhonePe becomes the first major third-party application provider (TPAP) to extend UPI payments to India\u2019s 200 million+ feature phone users, advancing financial inclusion and bringing underserved communities into the digital payments fold.<\/p>\n<p>The service will come pre-bundled on devices from Nokia, HMD, Lava International, and Itel Mobile \u2013 Transsion Holdings, with additional handset manufacturer partnerships to follow in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe today announced the launch of PhonePe UPI 123Pay, enabling UPI payment capabilities for feature phone users across India without requiring an internet connection. With this, PhonePe becomes the first major third-party application provider (TPAP) to extend UPI payments to India\u2019s 200 million+ feature phone users, advancing financial inclusion and bringing underserved communities into the digital payments fold. The service will come pre-bundled on devices from Nokia, HMD, Lava International, and Itel Mobile \u2013 Transsion Holdings, with additional handset manufacturer partnerships to follow in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032772","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032773,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032772\/revisions\/1032773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}