{"id":978243,"date":"2025-12-04T07:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978243"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:28:08","slug":"centre-removes-pre-installation-mandate-for-sanchar-saathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/centre-removes-pre-installation-mandate-for-sanchar-saathi\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre removes pre-installation mandate for Sanchar Saathi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has withdrawn its directive to mandatorily pre-install Sanchar Saathi cyber safety app in every smartphone sold in India, after facing backlash from technology and handset makers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, Government has decided not to make the pre- installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers,&#8221; the Department of Telecommunications said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has withdrawn its directive to mandatorily pre-install Sanchar Saathi cyber safety app in every smartphone sold in India, after facing backlash from technology and handset makers. &#8220;Given Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, Government has decided not to make the pre- installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers,&#8221; the Department of Telecommunications said in a release.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978243","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=978243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}