{"id":1044454,"date":"2026-10-19T08:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044454"},"modified":"2026-10-19T08:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:52:30","slug":"upi-mdr-rollout-pushed-indias-first-quantum-computer-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/upi-mdr-rollout-pushed-indias-first-quantum-computer-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI MDR rollout pushed; India\u2019s first quantum computer coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Implementation of the merchant discount rate (MDR) on select UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions has been pushed beyond Diwali, and a final date will be communicated soon to stakeholders, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The plan: The UPI MDR framework, announced on September 15 by NPCI, was scheduled to take effect on October 15. It prescribed a 0.4% fee on UPI merchant payments above Rs 2,000, capped at Rs 300 per transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implementation of the merchant discount rate (MDR) on select UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions has been pushed beyond Diwali, and a final date will be communicated soon to stakeholders, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said in a statement on Tuesday. The plan: The UPI MDR framework, announced on September 15 by NPCI, was scheduled to take effect on October 15. It prescribed a 0.4% fee on UPI merchant payments above Rs 2,000, capped at Rs 300 per transaction.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044454","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=1044454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044455,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044454\/revisions\/1044455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}