{"id":1008790,"date":"2026-05-20T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008790"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:45:55","slug":"bharti-airtel-becomes-first-indian-telco-to-launch-5g-network-slicing-powered-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/20\/bharti-airtel-becomes-first-indian-telco-to-launch-5g-network-slicing-powered-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel becomes first Indian telco to launch 5G network slicing-powered service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday became the first Indian telecom operator to launch a fifth-generation (5G) network-slicing-enabled service, bringing an advanced technology to the country that was previously available only in selected markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. <\/p>\n<p>Airtel&#8217;s &#8220;Priority Postpaid&#8221; service, which leverages 5G network slicing, will deliver premium, consistent experiences to its subscribers even in areas of network congestion, such as stadiums or congested regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday became the first Indian telecom operator to launch a fifth-generation (5G) network-slicing-enabled service, bringing an advanced technology to the country that was previously available only in selected markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. Airtel&#8217;s &#8220;Priority Postpaid&#8221; service, which leverages 5G network slicing, will deliver premium, consistent experiences to its subscribers even in areas of network congestion, such as stadiums or congested regions.<\/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-1008790","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\/1008790","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=1008790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008803,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008790\/revisions\/1008803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}