{"id":978157,"date":"2025-12-03T09:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978157"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:43:05","slug":"what-is-indias-sanchar-saathi-app-and-why-the-mandatory-preload-order-has-sparked-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/what-is-indias-sanchar-saathi-app-and-why-the-mandatory-preload-order-has-sparked-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"What is India\u2019s Sanchar Saathi app and why the mandatory preload order has sparked a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s mandate requiring smartphone makers to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on all new devices has triggered a political firestorm, fanning fears of government snooping in the world&#8217;s most populous nation. <\/p>\n<p>The app, called Sanchar Saathi, or Communication Partner, is at the center of a storm involving Apple, Samsung , Xiaomi and other major technology firms. They have been given 90 days to comply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s mandate requiring smartphone makers to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on all new devices has triggered a political firestorm, fanning fears of government snooping in the world&#8217;s most populous nation. The app, called Sanchar Saathi, or Communication Partner, is at the center of a storm involving Apple, Samsung , Xiaomi and other major technology firms. They have been given 90 days to comply.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978157","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=978157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}