{"id":978015,"date":"2025-12-03T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978015"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:07:49","slug":"govt-may-turn-sanchar-saathi-order-into-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/govt-may-turn-sanchar-saathi-order-into-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt may turn Sanchar Saathi order into advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handset majors Apple and Samsung have opened communication channels with the department of telecommunications (DoT) seeking a rollback of the directive that mandates the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi cyber-security app on all new smartphones sold in the country. Industry executives told Fe that the companies have proposed a middle path: instead of forcing installation at the manufacturing stage, the government should convert the order into an advisory under which brands would actively promote voluntary user downloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handset majors Apple and Samsung have opened communication channels with the department of telecommunications (DoT) seeking a rollback of the directive that mandates the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi cyber-security app on all new smartphones sold in the country. Industry executives told Fe that the companies have proposed a middle path: instead of forcing installation at the manufacturing stage, the government should convert the order into an advisory under which brands would actively promote voluntary user downloads.<\/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-978015","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\/978015","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=978015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}