{"id":848375,"date":"2024-08-27T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=848375"},"modified":"2024-08-27T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:00:06","slug":"government-to-regulate-whatsapp-telegram-and-others-dot-officials-issue-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/27\/government-to-regulate-whatsapp-telegram-and-others-dot-officials-issue-clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to regulate WhatsApp, Telegram and others: DoT officials issue clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has clarified that it does not plan to regulate the over-the-top (OTT) communication apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and others. According to a report by the Economic Reports, DoT officials said that the definition of telecommunication under the new Act does not apply to such apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has clarified that it does not plan to regulate the over-the-top (OTT) communication apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and others. According to a report by the Economic Reports, DoT officials said that the definition of telecommunication under the new Act does not apply to such apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848375","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}