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- privacy@lemmy.ml
The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.
Pretty much all phones still have SIM card slots.
It’s really mostly North American models that have been releasing with no SIM card slots lately, but they usually release it in other markets with one.