{"id":978676,"date":"2025-12-05T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978676"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:46:57","slug":"sanchar-saathi-app-govt-spells-out-the-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/sanchar-saathi-app-govt-spells-out-the-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi App: Govt spells out the mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Department of Telecom (DoT) mandated Sanchar Saathi application on all new mobile phones, Union Minister for Telecom Jyotiraditya Scindia clarified, \u201cIf you want, you can activate it; if you don\u2019t, then don\u2019t activate it&#8230; If you don\u2019t want Sanchar Sathi, you can delete it. It\u2019s not mandatory. It is optional.\u201d The minister was speaking outside the Parliament. His clarification came after the Opposition raised privacy concerns and fears of State surveillance. They also demanded the immediate rollback of this direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Department of Telecom (DoT) mandated Sanchar Saathi application on all new mobile phones, Union Minister for Telecom Jyotiraditya Scindia clarified, \u201cIf you want, you can activate it; if you don\u2019t, then don\u2019t activate it&#8230; If you don\u2019t want Sanchar Sathi, you can delete it. It\u2019s not mandatory. It is optional.\u201d The minister was speaking outside the Parliament. His clarification came after the Opposition raised privacy concerns and fears of State surveillance. They also demanded the immediate rollback of this direction.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978676","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=978676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}