{"id":1032789,"date":"2026-09-02T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032789"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:43:53","slug":"lava-feature-phone-users-can-now-make-upi-payments-through-phonepe-heres-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/lava-feature-phone-users-can-now-make-upi-payments-through-phonepe-heres-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Lava feature phone users can now make UPI payments through PhonePe: Here&#8217;s how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lava feature phone users can now make UPI payments through the PhonePe app. The domestic smartphone brand has introduced the service on select models starting with the Lava A7 Torch (2026). The feature uses the National Payments Corporation of India\u2019s (NPCI) UPI 123PAY technology, which allows UPI transactions without an internet or mobile data connection.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nThe PhonePe app will be available on the Lava A7 Torch (2026), followed by the Lava A2 Smart by the end of September. Lava said it will also integrate the feature into other models in its feature phone portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lava feature phone users can now make UPI payments through the PhonePe app. The domestic smartphone brand has introduced the service on select models starting with the Lava A7 Torch (2026). The feature uses the National Payments Corporation of India\u2019s (NPCI) UPI 123PAY technology, which allows UPI transactions without an internet or mobile data connection. \u200b The PhonePe app will be available on the Lava A7 Torch (2026), followed by the Lava A2 Smart by the end of September. Lava said it will also integrate the feature into other models in its feature phone portfolio.<\/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-1032789","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\/1032789","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=1032789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032790,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032789\/revisions\/1032790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}