{"id":978305,"date":"2025-12-04T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978305"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:26:49","slug":"india-rolls-back-order-to-preinstall-cybersecurity-app-on-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/india-rolls-back-order-to-preinstall-cybersecurity-app-on-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"India rolls back order to preinstall cybersecurity app on smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s telecoms ministry on Wednesday rolled back its order for smartphone manufacturers to preinstall a government-run cybersecurity app on new devices. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Communications on Monday asked smartphone makers to install the government\u2019s \u201cSanchar Saathi\u201d app within 90 days and to prevent users from disabling it. It also required manufacturers to push the app onto older models through a software update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s telecoms ministry on Wednesday rolled back its order for smartphone manufacturers to preinstall a government-run cybersecurity app on new devices. The Ministry of Communications on Monday asked smartphone makers to install the government\u2019s \u201cSanchar Saathi\u201d app within 90 days and to prevent users from disabling it. It also required manufacturers to push the app onto older models through a software update.<\/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-978305","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\/978305","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=978305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}