{"id":991323,"date":"2026-02-11T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991323"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:26:25","slug":"upi-goes-dark-bringing-indias-digital-payments-to-a-sudden-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/upi-goes-dark-bringing-indias-digital-payments-to-a-sudden-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI goes dark, bringing India\u2019s digital payments to a sudden halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of Tuesday, February 10, India\u2019s widely used digital payment network, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), suffered a widespread disruption that left many users unable to complete transactions across multiple popular apps. Reports began to emerge on social media platforms and outage trackers showing that payments, fund transfers and QR scans were failing on major UPI-enabled apps such as Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm, with users encountering \u201cservice provider not available\u201d and similar error messages as they tried to pay merchants, transfer money to contacts or complete online orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of Tuesday, February 10, India\u2019s widely used digital payment network, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), suffered a widespread disruption that left many users unable to complete transactions across multiple popular apps. Reports began to emerge on social media platforms and outage trackers showing that payments, fund transfers and QR scans were failing on major UPI-enabled apps such as Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm, with users encountering \u201cservice provider not available\u201d and similar error messages as they tried to pay merchants, transfer money to contacts or complete online orders.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991323","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=991323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}