{"id":967135,"date":"2025-10-10T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967135"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:02:02","slug":"make-mappls-must-in-all-pli-smartphones-mapmyindia-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/10\/make-mappls-must-in-all-pli-smartphones-mapmyindia-to-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Mappls must in all PLI smartphones: MapmyIndia to govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MapmyIndia, a domestic competitor of Google Maps, has urged the government to mandate pre-installation of its mobile application, Mappls, on smartphones produced under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme. The move aims to take advantage of the Centre\u2019s push for &#8220;Swadeshi&#8221; in digital services. <\/p>\n<p>In the last 10-15 days, the New Delhi-based company has seen a ten times increase in daily downloads after IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw publicly endorsed Mappls, alongside Zoho, as Indian alternatives to products by foreign tech companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MapmyIndia, a domestic competitor of Google Maps, has urged the government to mandate pre-installation of its mobile application, Mappls, on smartphones produced under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme. The move aims to take advantage of the Centre\u2019s push for &#8220;Swadeshi&#8221; in digital services. In the last 10-15 days, the New Delhi-based company has seen a ten times increase in daily downloads after IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw publicly endorsed Mappls, alongside Zoho, as Indian alternatives to products by foreign tech companies.<\/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-967135","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\/967135","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=967135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}