{"id":996278,"date":"2026-03-05T07:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996278"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:56:08","slug":"privacy-and-attention-promises-from-alternative-phones-at-mwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/05\/privacy-and-attention-promises-from-alternative-phones-at-mwc\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy and attention promises from alternative phones at MWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative phones on offer at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) telecoms trade show in Barcelona this week aim to answer demand for devices that protect users&#8217; data and attention. <\/p>\n<p>In the vein of Netherlands-based Fairphone, whose smartphones are marketed as ethical and environmentally friendly, other small companies have saddled up against the sector&#8217;s giants like Apple and Samsung. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Light Phone, designed not to be used &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative phones on offer at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) telecoms trade show in Barcelona this week aim to answer demand for devices that protect users&#8217; data and attention. In the vein of Netherlands-based Fairphone, whose smartphones are marketed as ethical and environmentally friendly, other small companies have saddled up against the sector&#8217;s giants like Apple and Samsung. &#8211; Light Phone, designed not to be used &#8211;<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996278","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=996278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}