{"id":910647,"date":"2025-03-03T07:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=910647"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:29:40","slug":"indian-telecom-a-global-leader-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/03\/indian-telecom-a-global-leader-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian telecom: A global leader in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian telecom industry is experiencing remarkable growth, both domestically and internationally. With approximately 1,187 million subscribers, urban teledensity has reached 131.01%, while rural areas lag at 58.31%. Despite this disparity, there remains immense potential for expansion across both sectors. The roll-out of 5G is progressing rapidly, facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI), indigenous data sets, and the establishment of localised data centres. However, affordability remains a key hurdle, particularly in rural areas where network accessibility and 5G-enabled handsets are still financially out of reach for many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian telecom industry is experiencing remarkable growth, both domestically and internationally. With approximately 1,187 million subscribers, urban teledensity has reached 131.01%, while rural areas lag at 58.31%. Despite this disparity, there remains immense potential for expansion across both sectors. The roll-out of 5G is progressing rapidly, facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI), indigenous data sets, and the establishment of localised data centres. However, affordability remains a key hurdle, particularly in rural areas where network accessibility and 5G-enabled handsets are still financially out of reach for many.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910647","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=910647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}