{"id":954459,"date":"2025-08-12T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954459"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:10:06","slug":"coai-opposes-direct-spectrum-allocation-to-enterprises-over-security-economic-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/12\/coai-opposes-direct-spectrum-allocation-to-enterprises-over-security-economic-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"COAI opposes direct spectrum allocation to enterprises over security, economic concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing private telecom service providers, has strongly opposed the direct allocation of spectrum to enterprises. It argues that such a move is not viable in India due to the country\u2019s unique telecom ecosystem, potential revenue losses, and national security risks. <\/p>\n<p>COAI \u2014 which counts Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea among its members \u2014 insists that enterprise 5G requirements should be met exclusively through licensed Telecom Service Providers (TSPs), either via spectrum leasing or through network slicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing private telecom service providers, has strongly opposed the direct allocation of spectrum to enterprises. It argues that such a move is not viable in India due to the country\u2019s unique telecom ecosystem, potential revenue losses, and national security risks. COAI \u2014 which counts Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea among its members \u2014 insists that enterprise 5G requirements should be met exclusively through licensed Telecom Service Providers (TSPs), either via spectrum leasing or through network slicing.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954459","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=954459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}