{"id":1041021,"date":"2026-10-06T07:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041021"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:27:41","slug":"access-with-affordability-must-be-a-right-in-every-industry-telecom-has-led-the-way-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/access-with-affordability-must-be-a-right-in-every-industry-telecom-has-led-the-way-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Access with affordability must be a right in every industry, telecom has led the way: Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Access with affordability should be a right across every industry, Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Monday, citing sharp fall in voice and data tariffs and the exponential rise in internet and broadband users as evidence of how India has expanded its digital access. <\/p>\n<p>Backing his argument with figures, Scindia said voice call rates have fallen from \u20b916 per minute in the 1990s to becoming free, while data costs have dropped 97 per cent from \u20b9287 per GB in 2014 to about \u20b98 per GB currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Access with affordability should be a right across every industry, Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Monday, citing sharp fall in voice and data tariffs and the exponential rise in internet and broadband users as evidence of how India has expanded its digital access. Backing his argument with figures, Scindia said voice call rates have fallen from \u20b916 per minute in the 1990s to becoming free, while data costs have dropped 97 per cent from \u20b9287 per GB in 2014 to about \u20b98 per GB currently.<\/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-1041021","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\/1041021","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=1041021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041022,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041021\/revisions\/1041022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}