{"id":1045923,"date":"2026-10-30T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045923"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:01:59","slug":"coai-seeks-early-execution-of-trai-recommendation-on-microwave-spectrum-to-boost-rural-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/coai-seeks-early-execution-of-trai-recommendation-on-microwave-spectrum-to-boost-rural-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"COAI seeks early execution of Trai recommendation on microwave spectrum to boost rural connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom industry body COAI has sought early adoption of a recommendation made by sector regulator TRAI to rationalise microwave spectrum allocation, as it will improve the economics of mobile networks and connectivity in rural and remote areas, the organisation said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended providing backhaul spectrum at a uniform and nominal price through an administrative process and without auction to telecom operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom industry body COAI has sought early adoption of a recommendation made by sector regulator TRAI to rationalise microwave spectrum allocation, as it will improve the economics of mobile networks and connectivity in rural and remote areas, the organisation said on Thursday. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended providing backhaul spectrum at a uniform and nominal price through an administrative process and without auction to telecom operators.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045923","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=1045923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045927,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045923\/revisions\/1045927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}