{"id":954883,"date":"2025-08-14T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954883"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:23:30","slug":"russia-imposes-curbs-on-whatsapp-telegram-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/14\/russia-imposes-curbs-on-whatsapp-telegram-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia imposes curbs on WhatsApp, Telegram calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia announced curbs on calls on the WhatsApp and Telegram messenger apps on Wednesday, saying that this was necessary to fight criminality, state media reported. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to combat criminals, measures are being taken to partially restrict calls on these foreign messaging apps (WhatsApp and Telegram),&#8221; communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said, as quoted by the RIA and TASS news agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia announced curbs on calls on the WhatsApp and Telegram messenger apps on Wednesday, saying that this was necessary to fight criminality, state media reported. &#8220;In order to combat criminals, measures are being taken to partially restrict calls on these foreign messaging apps (WhatsApp and Telegram),&#8221; communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said, as quoted by the RIA and TASS news agencies.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954883","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=954883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}