{"id":1039393,"date":"2026-09-29T08:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039393"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:12:36","slug":"mobile-phone-retailers-to-protest-against-upi-mdr-charges-on-october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/mobile-phone-retailers-to-protest-against-upi-mdr-charges-on-october-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone retailers to protest against UPI MDR charges on October 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone retailers across India plan to observe October 2 as \u201cNo UPI Day\u201d in protest against 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate charges on UPI transactions, a senior official of industry body AIMRA said. <\/p>\n<p>The Government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI transfers exceeding Rs 2,000 to merchants from October 15, while exempting person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone retailers across India plan to observe October 2 as \u201cNo UPI Day\u201d in protest against 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate charges on UPI transactions, a senior official of industry body AIMRA said. The Government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI transfers exceeding Rs 2,000 to merchants from October 15, while exempting person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charges.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039393","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=1039393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039403,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039393\/revisions\/1039403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}