Mint Explainer: Why Meta and Signal are sweating over the telecom bill

Although the Telecom Bill, 2023 does not provide for regulation of end-to-end messaging platforms explicitly, industry fears the definition of telecom services and messages can be extended to cover over-the-top communication services, including messaging platforms

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