New Delhi, March 30 -- The Indian government is reportedly planning to extend the SIM binding deadline for messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal. According to a report by the Hindustan Times, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended the SIM binding deadline to the end of December following multiple requests from tech companies facing implementation challenges.

The DoT had issued a SIM binding directive in November last year, which mandated that any app-based communication platform that relies on mobile numbers must link its services directly to the active SIM card installed in the user's device.

The department had then said that the SIM binding rules are important in order to fill security gaps that are ...