{"id":946979,"date":"2025-07-16T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946979"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:55:15","slug":"a-way-out-for-indias-jammed-telecom-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/16\/a-way-out-for-indias-jammed-telecom-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"A way out for India\u2019s jammed telecom sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, the Supreme Court of India rejected yet another petition by the telecom operators seeking a waiver of interest and penalty of about Rs 1.5 lakh-crore adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. <\/p>\n<p>On July 2, telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia rebuffed the most troubled operator Vi, making its survival quite uncertain: \u201cThere cannot be further equity conversion by the government to more than 49%.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The government also rejected Airtel\u2019s application to convert its AGR dues into equity, making the AGR issue drag on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, the Supreme Court of India rejected yet another petition by the telecom operators seeking a waiver of interest and penalty of about Rs 1.5 lakh-crore adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. On July 2, telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia rebuffed the most troubled operator Vi, making its survival quite uncertain: \u201cThere cannot be further equity conversion by the government to more than 49%.\u201d The government also rejected Airtel\u2019s application to convert its AGR dues into equity, making the AGR issue drag on.<\/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":[20,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946979","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=946979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}