{"id":978421,"date":"2025-12-04T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978421"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:43:09","slug":"govt-rolls-back-mandatory-pre-installation-order-for-sanchar-saathi-app-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/govt-rolls-back-mandatory-pre-installation-order-for-sanchar-saathi-app-after-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt rolls back mandatory pre-installation order for Sanchar Saathi app after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has withdrawn its directive requiring smartphone makers to mandatorily pre-install the government-owned Sanchar Saathi app. The Centre\u2019s U-turn came following widespread concerns over privacy and fears of potential surveillance. The Ministry of Communications said in a press release, \u201cGiven Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, Government has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has withdrawn its directive requiring smartphone makers to mandatorily pre-install the government-owned Sanchar Saathi app. The Centre\u2019s U-turn came following widespread concerns over privacy and fears of potential surveillance. The Ministry of Communications said in a press release, \u201cGiven Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, Government has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers.\u201d<\/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-978421","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\/978421","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=978421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}