{"id":1013014,"date":"2026-06-09T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013014"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:32:15","slug":"road-safety-tech-plan-hit-by-telcos-auto-turf-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/road-safety-tech-plan-hit-by-telcos-auto-turf-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Road safety tech plan hit by telcos-auto turf war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s plans to deploy vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications have hit a roadblock as a turf war has erupted among telecom operators, technology vendors and automotive bodies over who gets to control the ecosystem of the critical tool envisioned to help curb the country&#8217;s high road fatalities. <\/p>\n<p>The telecom regulator had invited comments from stakeholders on V2X. The technology, proposed to be deployed by city bodies or highway authorities, instead of a traditional, commercial, telecom service, enables real-time collision avoidance, emergency warnings and traffic optimisation to reduce road congestion. Road accidents claimed more than 173,000 lives in the country in 2023 alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s plans to deploy vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications have hit a roadblock as a turf war has erupted among telecom operators, technology vendors and automotive bodies over who gets to control the ecosystem of the critical tool envisioned to help curb the country&#8217;s high road fatalities. The telecom regulator had invited comments from stakeholders on V2X. The technology, proposed to be deployed by city bodies or highway authorities, instead of a traditional, commercial, telecom service, enables real-time collision avoidance, emergency warnings and traffic optimisation to reduce road congestion. Road accidents claimed more than 173,000 lives in the country in 2023 alone.<\/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-1013014","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\/1013014","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=1013014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013029,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013014\/revisions\/1013029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}