{"id":1032683,"date":"2026-09-02T09:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032683"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:04:23","slug":"india-has-the-will-it-hasnt-costed-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/india-has-the-will-it-hasnt-costed-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"India has the will. It hasn\u2019t costed the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-three lakh subsidised GPU hours built the machine. Nobody has budgeted a rupee for the day it starts answering citizens <\/p>\n<p>Cast your mind back to September 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Data in India costs around `250 a gigabyte. Then Jio arrived, and within a year the price of a gigabyte had fallen by more than 90 per cent. Every sensible person predicted the same thing: our phone bills were about to collapse. They did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-three lakh subsidised GPU hours built the machine. Nobody has budgeted a rupee for the day it starts answering citizens Cast your mind back to September 2016. Data in India costs around `250 a gigabyte. Then Jio arrived, and within a year the price of a gigabyte had fallen by more than 90 per cent. Every sensible person predicted the same thing: our phone bills were about to collapse. They did not.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032683","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=1032683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032701,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032683\/revisions\/1032701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}