{"id":978677,"date":"2025-12-05T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978677"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:47:27","slug":"sanchar-saathi-mandate-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/sanchar-saathi-mandate-revoked\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi mandate revoked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Government on Wednesday withdrew its mandate to manufacturers and importers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on all smartphones. The move comes after the order was widely criticised for infringing on privacy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, the Government has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers,\u201d the Ministry of Communication, parent ministry for the Department of Telecom (DoT), said in a statement. \u201cJust in the last one day, 6 lakh citizens have registered for downloading the app, which is a 10x increase in its uptake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Government on Wednesday withdrew its mandate to manufacturers and importers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on all smartphones. The move comes after the order was widely criticised for infringing on privacy. \u201cGiven Sanchar Saathi\u2019s increasing acceptance, the Government has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers,\u201d the Ministry of Communication, parent ministry for the Department of Telecom (DoT), said in a statement. \u201cJust in the last one day, 6 lakh citizens have registered for downloading the app, which is a 10x increase in its uptake.<\/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-978677","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\/978677","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=978677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}