{"id":1040412,"date":"2026-10-02T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040412"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:51:56","slug":"c-dot-at-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/c-dot-at-43\/","title":{"rendered":"C-DoT at 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C-DoT marked its 43rd Foundation Day with a renewed focus on its role in shaping India&#8217;s indigenous telecom technology capabilities \u2014 from rural telephone exchanges in the 1980s to 4G, 5G, cybersecurity, quantum communications and next-generation networks. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Foundation Day celebrations, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia highlighted the organisation&#8217;s evolution and its role in India&#8217;s future telecom ambitions, noting that C-DoT&#8217;s contributions have positioned India to lead the world in 6G after lagging in 4G and keeping pace in 5G. Minister of state for communications Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani described C-DoT as a centre of India&#8217;s technological confidence, reflecting Indian ingenuity, technological self-reliance and service to the nation. The minister also pointed out C-DoT&#8217;s young workforce, with more than 50 per cent of its employees below the age of 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-DoT marked its 43rd Foundation Day with a renewed focus on its role in shaping India&#8217;s indigenous telecom technology capabilities \u2014 from rural telephone exchanges in the 1980s to 4G, 5G, cybersecurity, quantum communications and next-generation networks. Addressing the Foundation Day celebrations, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia highlighted the organisation&#8217;s evolution and its role in India&#8217;s future telecom ambitions, noting that C-DoT&#8217;s contributions have positioned India to lead the world in 6G after lagging in 4G and keeping pace in 5G. Minister of state for communications Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani described C-DoT as a centre of India&#8217;s technological confidence, reflecting Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1040425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040412","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\/1040412","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=1040412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040426,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040412\/revisions\/1040426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}