{"id":1039418,"date":"2026-09-29T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039418"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:21:12","slug":"customers-may-not-be-able-to-use-upi-at-mobile-stores-on-october-2-why-retailers-are-protesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/customers-may-not-be-able-to-use-upi-at-mobile-stores-on-october-2-why-retailers-are-protesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers may not be able to use UPI at mobile stores on October 2; why retailers are protesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customers shopping for mobile phones, accessories and related services at retail stores may face disruptions while making UPI payments on 2 October, as mobile retailers have called for a \u2018No UPI Day\u2019 to protest the proposed 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The pushback comes as the government moves to change the zero-MDR framework that has applied to UPI payments for nearly six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers shopping for mobile phones, accessories and related services at retail stores may face disruptions while making UPI payments on 2 October, as mobile retailers have called for a \u2018No UPI Day\u2019 to protest the proposed 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI transactions. The pushback comes as the government moves to change the zero-MDR framework that has applied to UPI payments for nearly six years.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039418","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=1039418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039420,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039418\/revisions\/1039420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}