{"id":1041186,"date":"2026-10-06T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041186"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:47:27","slug":"indias-5g-network-reaches-86-of-population-target-set-to-double-users-by-2030-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/indias-5g-network-reaches-86-of-population-target-set-to-double-users-by-2030-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s 5G network reaches 86% of population, target set to double users by 2030: Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): India\u2019s 5G network now covers 86 per cent of the population, with close to 500 million customers using 5G, and the government is targeting 1 billion 5G customers by 2030, Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Kautilya Economic Conclave in Delhi, Scindia said India had witnessed a rapid expansion of telecom connectivity, with 5G now reaching 99.9 per cent of the country\u2019s districts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday 99.9 per cent of our districts are connected by 5G. 86 per cent of our population,\u201d Scindia said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): India\u2019s 5G network now covers 86 per cent of the population, with close to 500 million customers using 5G, and the government is targeting 1 billion 5G customers by 2030, Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Monday. Addressing the Kautilya Economic Conclave in Delhi, Scindia said India had witnessed a rapid expansion of telecom connectivity, with 5G now reaching 99.9 per cent of the country\u2019s districts. \u201cToday 99.9 per cent of our districts are connected by 5G. 86 per cent of our population,\u201d Scindia said.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041186","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=1041186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041198,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041186\/revisions\/1041198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}