{"id":854594,"date":"2024-09-12T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=854594"},"modified":"2024-09-12T07:33:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T02:03:51","slug":"25000-villages-to-get-telecom-connection-in-2025-minister-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/12\/25000-villages-to-get-telecom-connection-in-2025-minister-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"25,000 villages to get telecom connection in 2025: Minister Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 25,000 villages without telecom and mobile internet will be connected by mid-2025 to ensure full &#8220;saturation&#8221; in the country, said Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>State-run BSNL will roll out its 4G network with 100,000 telecom towers by the middle of next year. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 450,000 towers have been erected nationwide but some villages remain unconnected, said Scindia at the 51st national management convention of the All India Management Association. &#8220;We have committed to putting up close to 20,000 towers and committed Rs 45,000 crore towards that initiative by mid-2025&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 25,000 villages without telecom and mobile internet will be connected by mid-2025 to ensure full &#8220;saturation&#8221; in the country, said Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday. State-run BSNL will roll out its 4G network with 100,000 telecom towers by the middle of next year. A total of 450,000 towers have been erected nationwide but some villages remain unconnected, said Scindia at the 51st national management convention of the All India Management Association. &#8220;We have committed to putting up close to 20,000 towers and committed Rs 45,000 crore towards that initiative by mid-2025&#8221; he said.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854594","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=854594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}