{"id":995458,"date":"2026-02-28T07:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995458"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:32:56","slug":"sim-binding-mandate-may-cause-operational-disruptions-for-80-of-consumers-60-smbs-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/sim-binding-mandate-may-cause-operational-disruptions-for-80-of-consumers-60-smbs-study\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM binding mandate may cause operational disruptions for 80% of consumers, 60% SMBs: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Nearly 80% of consumers and over 60% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India may face operational disruptions, ranging from OTP requirements to repeated re-logins, due to the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 (DoT) SIM binding mandate, according to a study by CUTS International. <\/p>\n<p>The study, which is based on a comprehensive survey of 4,200 respondents, including 3,600 consumers and 600 SMBs, assessed the telecom department\u2019s mandate for four common access scenarios \u2013 repeated relogins on web versions; OTP requirements when logging in on secondary devices; potential authentication problems when the primary SIM is unavailable; and restrictions arising from shared or family SIMs and devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Nearly 80% of consumers and over 60% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India may face operational disruptions, ranging from OTP requirements to repeated re-logins, due to the Department of Telecommunications\u2019 (DoT) SIM binding mandate, according to a study by CUTS International. The study, which is based on a comprehensive survey of 4,200 respondents, including 3,600 consumers and 600 SMBs, assessed the telecom department\u2019s mandate for four common access scenarios \u2013 repeated relogins on web versions; OTP requirements when logging in on secondary devices; potential authentication problems when the primary SIM is unavailable; and restrictions arising from [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995458","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=995458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}