{"id":1045312,"date":"2026-10-28T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045312"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:55:43","slug":"telcos-ask-dot-to-enable-standard-power-outdoor-use-in-lower-6-ghz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/telcos-ask-dot-to-enable-standard-power-outdoor-use-in-lower-6-ghz-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos ask DoT to enable standard power outdoor use in lower 6 GHz band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s top telecom operators have urged the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to expeditiously notify rule amendments to enable standard power operations in the lower 6 GHz band, paving the way for seamless last-mile connectivity in rural and semi-urban areas through fixed broadband and other means.<\/p>\n<p>The expert committee constituted by DoT, led by Professor Radha Krishna Ganti, IIT Madras, had recommended enabling higher-power outdoor use at 36 dBm in the 5925\u20136425 MHz band, a recommendation that the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said must be \u201cimplemented without further delay\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s top telecom operators have urged the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to expeditiously notify rule amendments to enable standard power operations in the lower 6 GHz band, paving the way for seamless last-mile connectivity in rural and semi-urban areas through fixed broadband and other means. The expert committee constituted by DoT, led by Professor Radha Krishna Ganti, IIT Madras, had recommended enabling higher-power outdoor use at 36 dBm in the 5925\u20136425 MHz band, a recommendation that the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said must be \u201cimplemented without further delay\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045312","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\/1045312","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=1045312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045322,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045312\/revisions\/1045322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}