{"id":977627,"date":"2025-12-02T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977627"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:11:24","slug":"sanchar-saathi-sim-binding-mandates-a-privacy-concern-may-hit-business-model-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/02\/sanchar-saathi-sim-binding-mandates-a-privacy-concern-may-hit-business-model-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi, SIM-binding mandates a privacy concern, may hit business model: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi|Mumbai: The Centre\u2019s back-to-back directives over the past week to OTT communication platforms and handset makers could threaten their business models, while raising user privacy concerns and potentially disrupting the communication experience, technology industry experts said. Some experts said the executive orders could face legal scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>In similar directives sent on November 28, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) ordered all OTT communication apps, such as WhatsApp, Telegram and the likes, to remain SIM-bound. Simultaneously, it mandated handset makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi mobile application on devices as part of the Centre\u2019s drive against digital scams and fraudulent calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi|Mumbai: The Centre\u2019s back-to-back directives over the past week to OTT communication platforms and handset makers could threaten their business models, while raising user privacy concerns and potentially disrupting the communication experience, technology industry experts said. Some experts said the executive orders could face legal scrutiny. In similar directives sent on November 28, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) ordered all OTT communication apps, such as WhatsApp, Telegram and the likes, to remain SIM-bound. Simultaneously, it mandated handset makers to preload the Sanchar Saathi mobile application on devices as part of the Centre\u2019s drive against digital scams and fraudulent calls.<\/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-977627","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\/977627","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=977627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}