{"id":1005560,"date":"2026-04-29T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005560"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:37:07","slug":"evolving-networks-for-the-intelligence-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/evolving-networks-for-the-intelligence-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving networks for the intelligence era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia\u2019s annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) 2026 report has highlighted the continued momentum of India\u2019s 5G adoption and data consumption. Average monthly mobile data usage per user exceeded 31 GB in 2025, reflecting an 18% compound annual growth rate over the past five years. Pan-India 5G data traffic surged 70% year-on-year to reach 12.9 exabytes (EB). <\/p>\n<p>Yet, India\u2019s telecom sector is entering an intelligence era, where networks are valued less for the traffic they carry and more for the value they create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia\u2019s annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) 2026 report has highlighted the continued momentum of India\u2019s 5G adoption and data consumption. Average monthly mobile data usage per user exceeded 31 GB in 2025, reflecting an 18% compound annual growth rate over the past five years. Pan-India 5G data traffic surged 70% year-on-year to reach 12.9 exabytes (EB). Yet, India\u2019s telecom sector is entering an intelligence era, where networks are valued less for the traffic they carry and more for the value they create.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005560","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=1005560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005586,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005560\/revisions\/1005586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}