{"id":1042182,"date":"2026-10-10T08:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042182"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:10:40","slug":"imc-2026-private-investment-must-lead-viable-telecom-markets-public-funds-to-bridge-economic-gapsm-says-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/10\/imc-2026-private-investment-must-lead-viable-telecom-markets-public-funds-to-bridge-economic-gapsm-says-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"IMC 2026: Private investment must lead viable telecom markets; public funds to bridge economic gapsm says Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said that commercially viable telecom markets must be driven by private investment and competition, while public policy should step in to bridge financial viability gaps in unserved areas. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the strategic deployment of national infrastructure, Scindia emphasised that market forces remain the primary engines for network expansion across competitive markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said that commercially viable telecom markets must be driven by private investment and competition, while public policy should step in to bridge financial viability gaps in unserved areas. Speaking on the strategic deployment of national infrastructure, Scindia emphasised that market forces remain the primary engines for network expansion across competitive markets.<\/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-1042182","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\/1042182","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=1042182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042215,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042182\/revisions\/1042215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}