{"id":951781,"date":"2025-08-01T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951781"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:44:04","slug":"how-draft-telecom-cyber-rules-can-hurt-the-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/how-draft-telecom-cyber-rules-can-hurt-the-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"How draft telecom cyber rules can hurt the digital economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital industry associations have slammed the proposed amendments to the telecom cyber security rules. The higher cost of compliance could impact the growth of consumer tech and allied sectors which rely on OTP-based user verification over the mobile phone, explains Ojasvi Gupta <\/p>\n<p>l  What has DoT proposed? <\/p>\n<p>THE DRAFT TELECOMMUNICATIONS  (Telecom Cyber Security) Amendment Rules, 2025, introduced by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) significantly broadens the scope to cover non-licensed entities that use telecom identifiers for user authentication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital industry associations have slammed the proposed amendments to the telecom cyber security rules. The higher cost of compliance could impact the growth of consumer tech and allied sectors which rely on OTP-based user verification over the mobile phone, explains Ojasvi Gupta l What has DoT proposed? THE DRAFT TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Telecom Cyber Security) Amendment Rules, 2025, introduced by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) significantly broadens the scope to cover non-licensed entities that use telecom identifiers for user authentication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-951781","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\/951781","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}