{"id":909445,"date":"2025-02-27T08:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909445"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:57:26","slug":"4g-traffic-still-heavy-airtel-in-no-hurry-to-switch-to-standalone-5g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/4g-traffic-still-heavy-airtel-in-no-hurry-to-switch-to-standalone-5g\/","title":{"rendered":"4G traffic still heavy, Airtel in no hurry to switch to standalone 5G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel may start switching its 5G services onto a standalone (SA) network &#8211; from the non-standalone (NSA) mode it has been using &#8211; in one or two cities in three years, a senior executive said. However, he said, India&#8217;s second-largest telco still has a lot of traffic on its 4G bands and that there is no tangible benefit to users from shifting modes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Bharti Airtel may start switching its 5G services onto a standalone (SA) network &#8211; from the non-standalone (NSA) mode it has been using &#8211; in one or two cities in three years, a senior executive said. However, he said, India&#8217;s second-largest telco still has a lot of traffic on its 4G bands and that there is no tangible benefit to users from shifting modes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-909445","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\/909445","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}