India just killed the ‘Wi-Fi WhatsApp user’: The death of spare-phone era

Updated on 01 Dec 2025 | Category: Business

A quiet government notification has rewritten a decade of digital habit — and pushed India’s most used app back into the SIM slot it came from

For years, India has lived with a quiet, familiar tribe: the Wi-Fi WhatsApp user. The teenager glued to a hand-me-down phone with no balance and no SIM, but reliable home Wi-Fi.The NRI who keeps an India number alive only inside WhatsApp, the small s...