{"id":1027830,"date":"2026-08-11T07:29:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027830"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:06:03","slug":"corrosion-costs-indias-telecom-sector-%e2%82%b938320-crore-annually-nomura-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/corrosion-costs-indias-telecom-sector-%e2%82%b938320-crore-annually-nomura-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrosion costs India\u2019s telecom sector \u20b938,320 crore annually: Nomura report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Corrosion costs India\u2019s telecom sector an estimated \u20b938,320 crore annually, representing 3.8% of the industry\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP), according to a report recently released by Nomura Research Institute (NRI) Consulting &amp; Solutions India. <\/p>\n<p>This comes as wireless telecom carriers expand 4G and 5G mobile networks and infrastructure in response to a growing demand for digital services. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith towers relying heavily on steel for structural stability, continued exposure to rainfall, humidity, pollution, and other environmental conditions makes corrosion protection an important durability issue,\u201d the consulting firm said in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Corrosion costs India\u2019s telecom sector an estimated \u20b938,320 crore annually, representing 3.8% of the industry\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP), according to a report recently released by Nomura Research Institute (NRI) Consulting &amp; Solutions India. This comes as wireless telecom carriers expand 4G and 5G mobile networks and infrastructure in response to a growing demand for digital services. \u201cWith towers relying heavily on steel for structural stability, continued exposure to rainfall, humidity, pollution, and other environmental conditions makes corrosion protection an important durability issue,\u201d the consulting firm said in the report.<\/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-1027830","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\/1027830","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=1027830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027843,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027830\/revisions\/1027843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}