{"id":941017,"date":"2025-06-25T06:29:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941017"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:09:49","slug":"wi-fi-to-remain-indisputable-foundation-of-indias-digital-future-says-aruna-sundararajan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/25\/wi-fi-to-remain-indisputable-foundation-of-indias-digital-future-says-aruna-sundararajan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi to remain \u2018indisputable\u2019 foundation of India\u2019s digital future, says Aruna Sundararajan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Wi-Fi technologies are the \u201csilent powerhouse\u201d of the digital ecosystem and will remain the \u201cindisputable\u201d foundation of the country\u2019s digital future despite the disruption brought by the fifth-generation (5G) networks, according to the Broadband India Forum (BIF). <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Wi-Fi networks are crucial because they constitute the silent yet incredibly powerful workhouse of the digital ecosystem. Nearly 80% of all data today is consumed indoors, while higher frequencies involved in 5G networks can offer high speeds, they often struggle to penetrate materials,\u2019 Aruna Sundararajan, chairperson of BIF, and former secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), said at the World Wi-Fi Day event organised by BIF Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Wi-Fi technologies are the \u201csilent powerhouse\u201d of the digital ecosystem and will remain the \u201cindisputable\u201d foundation of the country\u2019s digital future despite the disruption brought by the fifth-generation (5G) networks, according to the Broadband India Forum (BIF). \u2018Wi-Fi networks are crucial because they constitute the silent yet incredibly powerful workhouse of the digital ecosystem. Nearly 80% of all data today is consumed indoors, while higher frequencies involved in 5G networks can offer high speeds, they often struggle to penetrate materials,\u2019 Aruna Sundararajan, chairperson of BIF, and former secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), said at the World Wi-Fi Day [&hellip;]<\/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-941017","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\/941017","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=941017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}