{"id":978516,"date":"2025-12-04T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978516"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:15:48","slug":"ministry-scraps-order-to-pre-install-sanchar-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/ministry-scraps-order-to-pre-install-sanchar-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry scraps order to pre-install Sanchar app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The communications ministry on Wednesday said it has dropped its directive requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on every handset, citing a large spike in downloads after the initial order on November 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, government has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers,\u201d the ministry said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The communications ministry on Wednesday said it has dropped its directive requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on every handset, citing a large spike in downloads after the initial order on November 28. \u201cGiven Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, government has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers,\u201d the ministry said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978516","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}