{"id":1014977,"date":"2026-06-17T08:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014977"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:51:51","slug":"pm-wani-reforms-to-enhance-adoption-of-public-wi-fi-boost-internet-accessibility-experts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/pm-wani-reforms-to-enhance-adoption-of-public-wi-fi-boost-internet-accessibility-experts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PM-WANI reforms to enhance adoption of public Wi-Fi, boost internet accessibility: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent government reforms in the public wifi scheme PM-WANI (Prime Minister&#8217;s Wi-Fi Access Network Interface) framework will improve business cases for entrepreneurs offering Wi-Fi hotspots and boost affordable internet accessibility, experts say. <\/p>\n<p>The DoT recently allowed public data offices (PDOs) and PDO Aggregators (PDOAs) to introduce short-duration data plans (sachets) under the PM-WANI framework. <\/p>\n<p>PDOs can be any shop, restaurant or office that can offer Wi-Fi hotspots to the public and PDOAs, which are technology providers enabling and managing hotspots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent government reforms in the public wifi scheme PM-WANI (Prime Minister&#8217;s Wi-Fi Access Network Interface) framework will improve business cases for entrepreneurs offering Wi-Fi hotspots and boost affordable internet accessibility, experts say. The DoT recently allowed public data offices (PDOs) and PDO Aggregators (PDOAs) to introduce short-duration data plans (sachets) under the PM-WANI framework. PDOs can be any shop, restaurant or office that can offer Wi-Fi hotspots to the public and PDOAs, which are technology providers enabling and managing hotspots.<\/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-1014977","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\/1014977","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=1014977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014993,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014977\/revisions\/1014993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}