{"id":977519,"date":"2025-12-01T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977519"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:16:26","slug":"dot-mandates-sim-binding-for-whatsapp-telegram-and-other-ott-apps-to-check-online-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/01\/dot-mandates-sim-binding-for-whatsapp-telegram-and-other-ott-apps-to-check-online-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT mandates SIM binding for WhatsApp, Telegram and other OTT apps to check online fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has directed over the top (OTT) communication apps, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Signal, Arattai and others, to ensure SIM binding. This means the app will remain linked to the mobile number on a particular device. The move aims to check rising instances of frauds and digital arrests. <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), which issued the directions on November 28, asked these OTT firms to implement SIM binding within 90 days. Failure on the part of the OTT firms to implement the mandated SIM binding would attract penal provisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has directed over the top (OTT) communication apps, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Signal, Arattai and others, to ensure SIM binding. This means the app will remain linked to the mobile number on a particular device. The move aims to check rising instances of frauds and digital arrests. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), which issued the directions on November 28, asked these OTT firms to implement SIM binding within 90 days. Failure on the part of the OTT firms to implement the mandated SIM binding would attract penal provisions.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977519","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=977519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}