{"id":1040683,"date":"2026-10-05T07:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040683"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:23:41","slug":"indias-5g-journey-approaching-new-phase-of-maturity-unlocking-value-on-horizon-now-ericsson-india-md-nitin-bansal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/indias-5g-journey-approaching-new-phase-of-maturity-unlocking-value-on-horizon-now-ericsson-india-md-nitin-bansal\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 5G journey approaching new phase of maturity; unlocking value on horizon now: Ericsson India MD Nitin Bansal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Having reached almost all districts of the country and with 43 crore subscriptions at the end of 2025, India\u2019s 5G journey \u201cis approaching a new phase of maturity\u201d with the next chapter going to be more about \u201cunlocking value through 5G standalone, 5G-advanced, AI and differentiated connectivity services.\u201d With this change, Ericsson India MD Nitin Bansal sees three major shifts defining the evolution of the country\u2019s telecom sector in coming years \u2014 network monetisation, intelligent networks and enabling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Having reached almost all districts of the country and with 43 crore subscriptions at the end of 2025, India\u2019s 5G journey \u201cis approaching a new phase of maturity\u201d with the next chapter going to be more about \u201cunlocking value through 5G standalone, 5G-advanced, AI and differentiated connectivity services.\u201d With this change, Ericsson India MD Nitin Bansal sees three major shifts defining the evolution of the country\u2019s telecom sector in coming years \u2014 network monetisation, intelligent networks and enabling.<\/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-1040683","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\/1040683","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=1040683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040695,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040683\/revisions\/1040695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}