{"id":1030694,"date":"2026-08-24T07:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030694"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:19:42","slug":"the-next-export-story-a-50-billion-prize-india-cant-afford-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/the-next-export-story-a-50-billion-prize-india-cant-afford-to-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"The next export story: A $50 billion prize India can&#8217;t afford to miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s telecom equipment industry is still a minor player in global trade. Annual exports of telecom and network equipment stand at just $0.6-1 billion, while imports are four to five times higher. But a new NITI Aayog assessment suggests this imbalance masks a much larger opportunity. With the global telecom equipment market expanding rapidly, India could emerge as a $50 billion export hub by 2035 if it can deepen local manufacturing, reduce dependence on imported components and move beyond low-value assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s telecom equipment industry is still a minor player in global trade. Annual exports of telecom and network equipment stand at just $0.6-1 billion, while imports are four to five times higher. But a new NITI Aayog assessment suggests this imbalance masks a much larger opportunity. With the global telecom equipment market expanding rapidly, India could emerge as a $50 billion export hub by 2035 if it can deepen local manufacturing, reduce dependence on imported components and move beyond low-value assembly.<\/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-1030694","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\/1030694","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=1030694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030695,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030694\/revisions\/1030695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}