{"id":946466,"date":"2025-07-15T07:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946466"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:37:05","slug":"six-lakh-villages-to-get-high-speed-fibre-based-broadband-in-next-3-yrs-dot-secy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/15\/six-lakh-villages-to-get-high-speed-fibre-based-broadband-in-next-3-yrs-dot-secy\/","title":{"rendered":"Six lakh villages to get high-speed fibre-based broadband in next 3 yrs: DoT secy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as six lakh villages will get connected with a high-speed optical fibre-based broadband network within three years, a senior government official said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>While speaking at CII-GCC Business Summit, Telecom Secretary Neeraj Mittal said that GCCs (Global Capability Center) are currently concentrated in some of the top cities, and the wider connectivity will help them expand their footprint to tier 2 and 3 towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as six lakh villages will get connected with a high-speed optical fibre-based broadband network within three years, a senior government official said on Monday. While speaking at CII-GCC Business Summit, Telecom Secretary Neeraj Mittal said that GCCs (Global Capability Center) are currently concentrated in some of the top cities, and the wider connectivity will help them expand their footprint to tier 2 and 3 towns.<\/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-946466","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\/946466","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=946466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}