{"id":978131,"date":"2025-12-03T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978131"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:39:23","slug":"what-is-sanchar-saathi-the-app-that-government-wants-apple-samsung-xiaomi-and-others-to-preload-on-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/what-is-sanchar-saathi-the-app-that-government-wants-apple-samsung-xiaomi-and-others-to-preload-on-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Sanchar Saathi, the app that government wants Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and others to preload on smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has mandated that all smartphones sold in the country must come pre-installed with Sanchar Saathi, a cybersecurity application. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued the directive on November 28, 2025, under the Telecommunication Cybersecurity Amendment Rules, marking the first time India has required state-backed software on all mobile devices. The move affects one of the world&#8217;s largest smartphone markets, with over 1.2 billion mobile users.<\/p>\n<p>What is Sanchar Saathi app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has mandated that all smartphones sold in the country must come pre-installed with Sanchar Saathi, a cybersecurity application. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued the directive on November 28, 2025, under the Telecommunication Cybersecurity Amendment Rules, marking the first time India has required state-backed software on all mobile devices. The move affects one of the world&#8217;s largest smartphone markets, with over 1.2 billion mobile users. What is Sanchar Saathi app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978131","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}