{"id":961194,"date":"2025-09-12T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961194"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:32:10","slug":"miss-an-emi-on-your-phone-loan-lender-may-soon-lock-your-device-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/miss-an-emi-on-your-phone-loan-lender-may-soon-lock-your-device-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss an EMI on your phone loan? Lender may soon lock your device remotely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defaulting on monthly payments on a loan taken to purchase a mobile phone may result in the device getting remotely locked by the lender.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism works through an app installed at the time of loan issuance, which allows lenders to partially disable the phone if EMIs are missed. Even then, basic functions like making emergency calls remain accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defaulting on monthly payments on a loan taken to purchase a mobile phone may result in the device getting remotely locked by the lender. The mechanism works through an app installed at the time of loan issuance, which allows lenders to partially disable the phone if EMIs are missed. Even then, basic functions like making emergency calls remain accessible.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961194","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=961194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}