{"id":1004611,"date":"2026-04-25T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004611"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:59:25","slug":"chandra-sekhar-pemmasani-urges-telcos-to-enhance-rd-spending-to-shape-6g-ai-ran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/chandra-sekhar-pemmasani-urges-telcos-to-enhance-rd-spending-to-shape-6g-ai-ran\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani urges telcos to enhance R&amp;D spending to shape 6G, AI-RAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani on Friday urged the Indian telecom industry to significantly enhance their spending in research and development (R&amp;D) to shape the future of the sixth-generation (6G), AI-RAN and edge computing technologies. <\/p>\n<p>At an industry conference organised by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Pemmasani said India\u2019s telecom services sector generated gross revenue of \u20b93.72 lakh crore in FY25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani on Friday urged the Indian telecom industry to significantly enhance their spending in research and development (R&amp;D) to shape the future of the sixth-generation (6G), AI-RAN and edge computing technologies. At an industry conference organised by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Pemmasani said India\u2019s telecom services sector generated gross revenue of \u20b93.72 lakh crore in FY25.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004611","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=1004611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004638,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004611\/revisions\/1004638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}