{"id":966276,"date":"2025-10-06T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966276"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:16:49","slug":"whatsapp-may-soon-add-username-handles-moving-beyond-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/06\/whatsapp-may-soon-add-username-handles-moving-beyond-phone-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp may soon add @username handles, moving beyond phone numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is reportedly preparing to introduce a long-anticipated update that will allow users to create usernames, moving away from its long-standing reliance on phone numbers. Since its launch in 2009, the Meta-owned messaging platform has only enabled registration and contact discovery through mobile numbers, a system that has increasingly looked dated compared with competitors such as Telegram, which has offered usernames for years.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp preparing to roll out usernames<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is reportedly preparing to introduce a long-anticipated update that will allow users to create usernames, moving away from its long-standing reliance on phone numbers. Since its launch in 2009, the Meta-owned messaging platform has only enabled registration and contact discovery through mobile numbers, a system that has increasingly looked dated compared with competitors such as Telegram, which has offered usernames for years. WhatsApp preparing to roll out usernames<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966276","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}