{"id":1031424,"date":"2026-08-27T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031424"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:41:32","slug":"vodafone-idea-and-bsnl-agree-on-nationwide-network-sharing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/vodafone-idea-and-bsnl-agree-on-nationwide-network-sharing-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea and BSNL agree on nationwide network sharing deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) have reached an agreement to share their networks across all telecom circles in India. According to sources, the development follows a meeting between Vodafone Idea CEO Abhijit Kishore and BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Robert J. Ravi. Under the arrangement, the two operators plan to implement intra-circle and inter-circle roaming, along with sharing of telecom towers and optical fibre infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) have reached an agreement to share their networks across all telecom circles in India. According to sources, the development follows a meeting between Vodafone Idea CEO Abhijit Kishore and BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Robert J. Ravi. Under the arrangement, the two operators plan to implement intra-circle and inter-circle roaming, along with sharing of telecom towers and optical fibre infrastructure.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031424","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=1031424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031444,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031424\/revisions\/1031444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}