{"id":1004727,"date":"2026-04-25T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004727"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:36:29","slug":"boost-rd-or-lag-in-6g-race-mos-chandra-sekhar-pemmasani-tells-telcos-as-revenues-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/boost-rd-or-lag-in-6g-race-mos-chandra-sekhar-pemmasani-tells-telcos-as-revenues-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost R&amp;D or lag in 6G race, MoS Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani tells telcos as revenues surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The minister of state for communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani urged Indian telecom operators to increase their research and development (R&amp;D) spending to shape the future of next generation mobile networks. <\/p>\n<p>Telco spending on R&amp;D remains low despite the telecom sector revenue crossing \u20b93.72 lakh crore in 2024-25, the minister said, adding that domestic players deploy only a fraction of their earnings on R&amp;D unlike multinational companies such as Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and Samsung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The minister of state for communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani urged Indian telecom operators to increase their research and development (R&amp;D) spending to shape the future of next generation mobile networks. Telco spending on R&amp;D remains low despite the telecom sector revenue crossing \u20b93.72 lakh crore in 2024-25, the minister said, adding that domestic players deploy only a fraction of their earnings on R&amp;D unlike multinational companies such as Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm and Samsung.<\/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-1004727","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\/1004727","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=1004727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004728,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004727\/revisions\/1004728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}