{"id":1021526,"date":"2026-07-16T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021526"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:10:23","slug":"public-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/public-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom operators and technology companies have renewed their long-running battle over the future of the broadband architecture, with telecom service providers arguing that public Wi-Fi has limited commercial relevance in a mobile-first market, while the Broadband India Forum (BIF) has urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to recognise it as a critical complementary layer of national broadband infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>In submissions to Trai\u2019s consultation paper on the proliferation of public Wi-Fi networks, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) said weak consumer demand, poor monetisation prospects and market realities \u2013 not licensing barriers or regulatory constraints \u2013 have limited the success of the PM-WANI framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom operators and technology companies have renewed their long-running battle over the future of the broadband architecture, with telecom service providers arguing that public Wi-Fi has limited commercial relevance in a mobile-first market, while the Broadband India Forum (BIF) has urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to recognise it as a critical complementary layer of national broadband infrastructure. In submissions to Trai\u2019s consultation paper on the proliferation of public Wi-Fi networks, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) said weak consumer demand, poor monetisation prospects and market realities \u2013 not licensing barriers or regulatory constraints \u2013 have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1021539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021526","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021540,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021526\/revisions\/1021540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}