{"id":1008800,"date":"2026-05-20T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008800"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:44:47","slug":"airtels-5g-upgrade-does-not-violate-net-neutrality-brings-new-tech-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/20\/airtels-5g-upgrade-does-not-violate-net-neutrality-brings-new-tech-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Airtel\u2019s 5G upgrade does not violate net neutrality, brings new tech to India\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Industry experts said Bharti Airtel&#8217;s fifth-generation (5G) network slicing-based technological upgrade would offer more efficient services with additional capacity and would not violate the principle of net neutrality. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this (network slicing) service, Airtel has upgraded its 5G network with advanced capabilities of slicing technology. This makes the network more efficient and creates more capacity. This additional capability can be used in a targeted manner for delivery of a superior experience for priority customers, and does not violate net neutrality,&#8221; a telco executive told ET on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Industry experts said Bharti Airtel&#8217;s fifth-generation (5G) network slicing-based technological upgrade would offer more efficient services with additional capacity and would not violate the principle of net neutrality. &#8220;For this (network slicing) service, Airtel has upgraded its 5G network with advanced capabilities of slicing technology. This makes the network more efficient and creates more capacity. This additional capability can be used in a targeted manner for delivery of a superior experience for priority customers, and does not violate net neutrality,&#8221; a telco executive told ET on the condition of anonymity.<\/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-1008800","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\/1008800","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=1008800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008801,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008800\/revisions\/1008801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}