{"id":1009697,"date":"2026-05-25T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009697"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:20:01","slug":"network-slicing-no-silver-bullet-to-drive-5g-monetisation-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/network-slicing-no-silver-bullet-to-drive-5g-monetisation-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Network slicing no silver bullet to drive 5G monetisation in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network slicing is often touted as a quintessential 5G killer app for delivering a host of top-end, service-level agreement (SLA)-backed customised services to premium customers and enterprises, which, in turn, can turbo charge telco ARPUs. But can big-bang rollouts of premium 5G services using network slicing technology really prise open new revenue streams and drive genuine 5G monetisation in India? <\/p>\n<p>Seems unlikely, anytime soon. If anything, deploying such specialised 5G services could be a tough call in India where data rates remain low and the country is home to a billion-plus mobile users who are amongst the world\u2019s biggest data guzzlers. India\u2019s comparatively low network density vs the likes of China and its paucity of sub-GHz spectrum resources further complicates matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network slicing is often touted as a quintessential 5G killer app for delivering a host of top-end, service-level agreement (SLA)-backed customised services to premium customers and enterprises, which, in turn, can turbo charge telco ARPUs. But can big-bang rollouts of premium 5G services using network slicing technology really prise open new revenue streams and drive genuine 5G monetisation in India? Seems unlikely, anytime soon. If anything, deploying such specialised 5G services could be a tough call in India where data rates remain low and the country is home to a billion-plus mobile users who are amongst the world\u2019s biggest data [&hellip;]<\/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-1009697","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\/1009697","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=1009697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009699,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009697\/revisions\/1009699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}