{"id":1005370,"date":"2026-04-28T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005370"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:54:56","slug":"trai-flags-pm-wani-viability-seeks-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/trai-flags-pm-wani-viability-seeks-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Trai flags PM-Wani viability, seeks overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday flagged viability concerns in the PM-Wani model and sought stakeholder views on new revenue mechanisms and regulatory changes to scale up public Wi-Fi networks, issuing a consultation paper to revisit the framework. <\/p>\n<p>The regulator said that despite policy backing and the launch of PM-Wani as a decentralised, licence-free architecture for public data offices (PDOs), the ecosystem has not scaled as envisaged. It pointed to limited participation from small entrepreneurs and service providers, weak monetisation avenues, and fragmented implementation across states and local bodies as key constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday flagged viability concerns in the PM-Wani model and sought stakeholder views on new revenue mechanisms and regulatory changes to scale up public Wi-Fi networks, issuing a consultation paper to revisit the framework. The regulator said that despite policy backing and the launch of PM-Wani as a decentralised, licence-free architecture for public data offices (PDOs), the ecosystem has not scaled as envisaged. It pointed to limited participation from small entrepreneurs and service providers, weak monetisation avenues, and fragmented implementation across states and local bodies as key constraints.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005370","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=1005370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005399,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005370\/revisions\/1005399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}