{"id":978014,"date":"2025-12-03T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978014"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:06:40","slug":"sim-binding-order-may-run-into-technical-hurdle-industry-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/sim-binding-order-may-run-into-technical-hurdle-industry-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM-binding order may run into technical hurdle: Industry experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The department of telecommunications\u2019 SIM-binding mandate to prevent cyber fraud is likely to run into a technical hurdle making its rollout unfeasible. According to technical experts, the SIM-binding mandate is built on assumptions that current technology simply does not support. <\/p>\n<p>The November 28 order issued by the DoT basically mandates apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to stay continuously linked to the active SIM inside a user\u2019s phone and ensures six-hour logouts for web and desktop versions to prevent cyber-fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The department of telecommunications\u2019 SIM-binding mandate to prevent cyber fraud is likely to run into a technical hurdle making its rollout unfeasible. According to technical experts, the SIM-binding mandate is built on assumptions that current technology simply does not support. The November 28 order issued by the DoT basically mandates apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to stay continuously linked to the active SIM inside a user\u2019s phone and ensures six-hour logouts for web and desktop versions to prevent cyber-fraud.<\/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-978014","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\/978014","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=978014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}