{"id":1016157,"date":"2026-06-22T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016157"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:52:56","slug":"mint-totm-the-jio-airtel-divergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/22\/mint-totm-the-jio-airtel-divergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mint TOTM: The Jio-Airtel divergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jio Platforms Ltd. and Bharti Airtel Ltd. run India\u2019s largest telecom networks, but ask them where growth comes from next and you\u2019ll get very different answers.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel is looking outward, betting on Africa, data centres through Nxtra, and financial services via Airtel Money. Jio is doubling down at home, aggressively expanding its broadband network through 5G fixed wireless, while building toward AI services and its own satellite internet constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jio Platforms Ltd. and Bharti Airtel Ltd. run India\u2019s largest telecom networks, but ask them where growth comes from next and you\u2019ll get very different answers. Airtel is looking outward, betting on Africa, data centres through Nxtra, and financial services via Airtel Money. Jio is doubling down at home, aggressively expanding its broadband network through 5G fixed wireless, while building toward AI services and its own satellite internet constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016157","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016158,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016157\/revisions\/1016158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}