{"id":978013,"date":"2025-12-03T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978013"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:05:23","slug":"bif-seeks-halt-to-sim-linkage-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/bif-seeks-halt-to-sim-linkage-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"BIF seeks halt to SIM-linkage mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadband India Forum (BIF) has called for an immediate pause in the implementation of the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 SIM-binding mandate, saying the directive raises issues of jurisdiction, proportionality, consumer impact and technical feasibility, and has been issued without any public consultation or user-impact assessment. <\/p>\n<p>The industry body, which counts Amazon, Netflix and Meta among its members, argued that the directions extend telecom-style obligations to digital and OTT platforms that are governed under the IT Act,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadband India Forum (BIF) has called for an immediate pause in the implementation of the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 SIM-binding mandate, saying the directive raises issues of jurisdiction, proportionality, consumer impact and technical feasibility, and has been issued without any public consultation or user-impact assessment. The industry body, which counts Amazon, Netflix and Meta among its members, argued that the directions extend telecom-style obligations to digital and OTT platforms that are governed under the IT Act,<\/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-978013","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\/978013","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=978013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}