{"id":1049103,"date":"2026-11-14T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049103"},"modified":"2026-11-14T07:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:05:35","slug":"vi-seeks-dot-nod-to-retain-expiring-4g-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/vi-seeks-dot-nod-to-retain-expiring-4g-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Vi seeks DoT nod to retain expiring 4G spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Vodafone Idea (Vi) has approached the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to ensure continuity of services as a major chunk of its 4G spectrum holdings is scheduled for renewal in December 2026, with no new auctions planned in the near term. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are eight circles where the spectrum is due,&#8221; chief executive Abhijit Kishore said on Friday. &#8220;We have already represented ourselves to the Department of Telecommunication of our interest in continuing with that&#8230;Our services are not going to be disrupted at all,&#8221; he told analysts during the company&#8217;s September-quarter earnings call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Vodafone Idea (Vi) has approached the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to ensure continuity of services as a major chunk of its 4G spectrum holdings is scheduled for renewal in December 2026, with no new auctions planned in the near term. &#8220;There are eight circles where the spectrum is due,&#8221; chief executive Abhijit Kishore said on Friday. &#8220;We have already represented ourselves to the Department of Telecommunication of our interest in continuing with that&#8230;Our services are not going to be disrupted at all,&#8221; he told analysts during the company&#8217;s September-quarter earnings call.<\/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-1049103","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\/1049103","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=1049103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049124,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049103\/revisions\/1049124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}