{"id":939947,"date":"2025-06-20T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939947"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:57:17","slug":"cost-effective-tariff-free-5g-service-quality-to-drive-bsnl-4g-customers-pemmasani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/20\/cost-effective-tariff-free-5g-service-quality-to-drive-bsnl-4g-customers-pemmasani\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost-effective tariff, free 5G, service quality to drive BSNL 4G customers: Pemmasani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once BSNL\u2019s 4G current deployment is stabilised, the Cabinet approval for the fresh 1 lakh sites will be sought, and the state-run telco is mulling offering free 5G wireless access, and cost-effective tariffs to woo subscribers. In an exclusive interaction with ETTelecom\u2019s Muntazir Abbas, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Minister of State for Communications, talks on BSNL 4G network, BharatNet 3 program, Vodafone Idea\u2019s health, India\u2019s 6G readiness, and telecom carriers\u2019 anti-spam initiatives. Edited excerpts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once BSNL\u2019s 4G current deployment is stabilised, the Cabinet approval for the fresh 1 lakh sites will be sought, and the state-run telco is mulling offering free 5G wireless access, and cost-effective tariffs to woo subscribers. In an exclusive interaction with ETTelecom\u2019s Muntazir Abbas, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Minister of State for Communications, talks on BSNL 4G network, BharatNet 3 program, Vodafone Idea\u2019s health, India\u2019s 6G readiness, and telecom carriers\u2019 anti-spam initiatives. Edited excerpts.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939947","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\/939947","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=939947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}