{"id":978450,"date":"2025-12-04T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978450"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:06:08","slug":"centre-backtracks-amid-backlash-revokes-order-on-mandatory-pre-installation-of-sanchar-saathi-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/centre-backtracks-amid-backlash-revokes-order-on-mandatory-pre-installation-of-sanchar-saathi-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre backtracks amid backlash, revokes order on mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afterwidespread backlash and privacy concerns over the Centre&#8217;s move mandating the pre-installation of state-owned Sanchar Saathi app on all mobile phones in India, the Ministry of Communications on Wednesday rolled back the order. <\/p>\n<p>The government cited the application&#8217;s sudden and &#8220;increasing acceptance&#8221; for the removal of the order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afterwidespread backlash and privacy concerns over the Centre&#8217;s move mandating the pre-installation of state-owned Sanchar Saathi app on all mobile phones in India, the Ministry of Communications on Wednesday rolled back the order. The government cited the application&#8217;s sudden and &#8220;increasing acceptance&#8221; for the removal of the order.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978450","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=978450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}