{"id":1016924,"date":"2026-06-26T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016924"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:22:09","slug":"spain-to-require-minimum-four-hour-mobile-coverage-in-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/spain-to-require-minimum-four-hour-mobile-coverage-in-power-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain to require minimum four-hour mobile coverage in power outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Spain will require mobile operators to keep at least four hours of network coverage for most of the population in case of power outages under a new decree to be approved before year-end, \u200cDigital Transformation Minister \u2060Oscar \u2060Lopez announced on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Mobile networks went down across Spain during a crippling blackout in April 2025 that affected Portugal and Spain. <\/p>\n<p>Coverage will be phased in over three years: half of Spain&#8217;s population to be covered in \u2060the first \u200cyear, 65% in the second, and 75% by year three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Spain will require mobile operators to keep at least four hours of network coverage for most of the population in case of power outages under a new decree to be approved before year-end, \u200cDigital Transformation Minister \u2060Oscar \u2060Lopez announced on Thursday. Mobile networks went down across Spain during a crippling blackout in April 2025 that affected Portugal and Spain. Coverage will be phased in over three years: half of Spain&#8217;s population to be covered in \u2060the first \u200cyear, 65% in the second, and 75% by year three.<\/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-1016924","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\/1016924","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=1016924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016943,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016924\/revisions\/1016943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}