{"id":1009507,"date":"2026-05-23T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009507"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:30:25","slug":"bsnl-stabilises-indigenous-4g-network-technology-brings-india-to-4th-rank-worldwide-pemmasani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/bsnl-stabilises-indigenous-4g-network-technology-brings-india-to-4th-rank-worldwide-pemmasani\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL stabilises indigenous 4G network, technology brings India to 4th rank worldwide: Pemmasani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani said that the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) had stabilised the fourth-generation (4G) network, and homegrown technology had enabled India to become the fourth country worldwide to develop telecom radio network equipment. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India is only the 4th country that has done (indigenously developed 5G radio) that, and not only installed 100,000 towers, which was a monumental task, but is now scaling the network,&#8221; Pemmasani told ET, adding that the development has demonstrated the country&#8217;s technological prowess and resolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani said that the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) had stabilised the fourth-generation (4G) network, and homegrown technology had enabled India to become the fourth country worldwide to develop telecom radio network equipment. &#8220;India is only the 4th country that has done (indigenously developed 5G radio) that, and not only installed 100,000 towers, which was a monumental task, but is now scaling the network,&#8221; Pemmasani told ET, adding that the development has demonstrated the country&#8217;s technological prowess and resolve.<\/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-1009507","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\/1009507","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=1009507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009508,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009507\/revisions\/1009508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}