{"id":829207,"date":"2024-07-04T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=829207"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:43:43","slug":"bsnls-4g-launch-delay-led-to-tariff-hike-by-private-players-employees-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/04\/bsnls-4g-launch-delay-led-to-tariff-hike-by-private-players-employees-union\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL\u2019s 4G launch delay led to tariff hike by private players: Employees\u2019 union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BSNL\u2019s labour union has termed the tariff hikes by telecom operators as \u201cdrastic\u201d in a letter to the Minister of Communications. They added that the delays in the launch of BSNL\u2019s 4G and 5G networks was, in effect, allowing telcos to raise tariffs with impunity at the cost of the common consumer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is needless for us to mention that BSNL had been acting as the true \u2018regulator\u2019 in the telecom sector. Earlier, due to the competition from BSNL, the private telecom service providers were restrained from increasing their tariffs capriciously. However, the scenario has changed now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BSNL\u2019s labour union has termed the tariff hikes by telecom operators as \u201cdrastic\u201d in a letter to the Minister of Communications. They added that the delays in the launch of BSNL\u2019s 4G and 5G networks was, in effect, allowing telcos to raise tariffs with impunity at the cost of the common consumer. \u201cIt is needless for us to mention that BSNL had been acting as the true \u2018regulator\u2019 in the telecom sector. Earlier, due to the competition from BSNL, the private telecom service providers were restrained from increasing their tariffs capriciously. However, the scenario has changed now.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829207","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=829207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}