{"id":1045097,"date":"2026-10-26T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045097"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:06:50","slug":"sim-binding-takes-effect-on-jan-1-2027-what-changes-for-whatsapp-telegram-users-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/26\/sim-binding-takes-effect-on-jan-1-2027-what-changes-for-whatsapp-telegram-users-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM-binding takes effect on Jan 1, 2027: What changes for WhatsApp, Telegram users in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecom&#8217;s new \u201cSIM binding\u201d rules are set to come into effect from January 1, 2027 onwards. Under this, messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram may face access restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the implementation, DoT issued a series of guidelines for messaging platforms to ensure that accounts with a registered SIM card will be allowed to use the services. The deadline for this is December 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecom&#8217;s new \u201cSIM binding\u201d rules are set to come into effect from January 1, 2027 onwards. Under this, messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram may face access restrictions. Ahead of the implementation, DoT issued a series of guidelines for messaging platforms to ensure that accounts with a registered SIM card will be allowed to use the services. The deadline for this is December 31, 2026.<\/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":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045097","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=1045097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045098,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045097\/revisions\/1045098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}