{"id":955828,"date":"2025-08-19T07:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955828"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:54:32","slug":"lower-phone-bills-telcos-may-dial-centre-for-reducing-gst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/lower-phone-bills-telcos-may-dial-centre-for-reducing-gst\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower phone bills? Telcos may dial Centre for reducing GST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The telecom industry is likely to seek a reduction in the goods and services tax (GST) rates on telecom services to 5% from the current 18%, executives said. <\/p>\n<p>Senior industry executives that ET spoke to said that since telecom is an essential service, a 5% rate should be charged. If this request is accepted by the GST Council, the mobile and broadband bills of consumers may get slashed drastically post-Diwali, when the GST reforms are expected to be implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The telecom industry is likely to seek a reduction in the goods and services tax (GST) rates on telecom services to 5% from the current 18%, executives said. Senior industry executives that ET spoke to said that since telecom is an essential service, a 5% rate should be charged. If this request is accepted by the GST Council, the mobile and broadband bills of consumers may get slashed drastically post-Diwali, when the GST reforms are expected to be implemented.<\/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-955828","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\/955828","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=955828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}