{"id":934981,"date":"2025-05-30T06:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=934981"},"modified":"2025-05-30T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:31:12","slug":"digital-divide-51-rural-women-dont-own-a-mobile-phone-shows-nso-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/30\/digital-divide-51-rural-women-dont-own-a-mobile-phone-shows-nso-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital divide: 51% rural women don&#8217;t own a mobile phone, shows NSO data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of the women living in rural areas do not own a mobile phone, according to the latest Comprehensive Modular Survey: Telecom, 2025 (CMS -T) released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Data showed that 51.6 per cent of women belonging to the \u201815 years and above age group\u2019 in rural areas don\u2019t own a mobile phone, while 80.7 per cent of men own one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of the women living in rural areas do not own a mobile phone, according to the latest Comprehensive Modular Survey: Telecom, 2025 (CMS -T) released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Thursday. Data showed that 51.6 per cent of women belonging to the \u201815 years and above age group\u2019 in rural areas don\u2019t own a mobile phone, while 80.7 per cent of men own one.<\/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-934981","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\/934981","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=934981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}