{"id":1048046,"date":"2026-11-09T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048046"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:48:33","slug":"why-govt-wants-each-messaging-account-to-be-binded-to-a-sim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/why-govt-wants-each-messaging-account-to-be-binded-to-a-sim\/","title":{"rendered":"Why govt wants each messaging account to be binded to a SIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has ordered messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to tie every account to an active SIM card in the user\u2019s phone. Taking effect from January 1, 2027, the move aims to curb cyber fraud, impersonation, and the misuse of Indian mobile numbers, explains Ojasvi Gupta <\/p>\n<p>What is SIM binding and how does it work? <\/p>\n<p>SIM BINDING IS a security mechanism that links a messaging application to the active SIM card associated with the mobile number used for registration. Unlike OTP-based verification,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has ordered messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to tie every account to an active SIM card in the user\u2019s phone. Taking effect from January 1, 2027, the move aims to curb cyber fraud, impersonation, and the misuse of Indian mobile numbers, explains Ojasvi Gupta What is SIM binding and how does it work? SIM BINDING IS a security mechanism that links a messaging application to the active SIM card associated with the mobile number used for registration. Unlike OTP-based verification,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048046","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048067,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048046\/revisions\/1048067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}