{"id":977841,"date":"2025-12-02T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977841"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:50:51","slug":"sanchar-saathi-app-explained-heres-why-the-government-wants-it-pre-installed-on-every-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/02\/sanchar-saathi-app-explained-heres-why-the-government-wants-it-pre-installed-on-every-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi App explained: Here\u2019s why the government wants it pre-installed on every smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has made it mandatory for all newly manufactured or imported mobile phones in India to come with the Sanchar Saathi app pre-installed. Sanchar Saathi is a government-developed mobile application designed to make smartphone use safer for everyone. The app aims to help people track their mobile connections, check if their phone is genuine, and block a device if it gets lost or stolen. It also allows users to report suspicious calls, fraud attempts, and harmful links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has made it mandatory for all newly manufactured or imported mobile phones in India to come with the Sanchar Saathi app pre-installed. Sanchar Saathi is a government-developed mobile application designed to make smartphone use safer for everyone. The app aims to help people track their mobile connections, check if their phone is genuine, and block a device if it gets lost or stolen. It also allows users to report suspicious calls, fraud attempts, and harmful links.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977841","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=977841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}