{"id":980820,"date":"2025-12-18T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980820"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:44:58","slug":"iamai-urges-dot-to-withdraw-sim-binding-directions-says-rules-exceed-telecom-acts-scope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/18\/iamai-urges-dot-to-withdraw-sim-binding-directions-says-rules-exceed-telecom-acts-scope\/","title":{"rendered":"IAMAI urges DoT to withdraw SIM-Binding directions, says rules exceed Telecom Act\u2019s scope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), while flagging concerns over the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 (DoT) recent SIM-binding directions said that rules go beyond the scope of the Telecommunications Act, 2023 and could severely disrupt digital communication services across the country. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Union Minister of Communications, Jyotiraditya Scindia, reviewed by Fe, the industry body said that over-the-top (OTT) app-based communication services are not covered under the Telecommunications Act and continue to be governed by the Information Technology Act, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), while flagging concerns over the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 (DoT) recent SIM-binding directions said that rules go beyond the scope of the Telecommunications Act, 2023 and could severely disrupt digital communication services across the country. In a letter to the Union Minister of Communications, Jyotiraditya Scindia, reviewed by Fe, the industry body said that over-the-top (OTT) app-based communication services are not covered under the Telecommunications Act and continue to be governed by the Information Technology Act, 2000.<\/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-980820","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\/980820","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=980820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}