{"id":956859,"date":"2025-08-23T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956859"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:52:00","slug":"india-uk-trade-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/india-uk-trade-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"India-UK Trade Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When India and the United Kingdom signed the \u201cComprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)\u201d on July 24, 2025, it was celebrated as a breakthrough in trade diplomacy. For India, the deal is not just about reducing tariffs on goods but also about securing a more open and predictable environment for its service sectors and among them, telecommunications stands out as a critical focus area. Over the last decade, telecom has transformed from being merely a utility sector into a strategic enabler of India\u2019s Digital India vision, powering digital payments, e-governance, e-commerce and connectivity for nearly 1.2 billion mobile subscribers. The inclusion of a full-fledged telecom chapter in CETA reflects New Delhi\u2019s decision to leverage trade policy as a tool to strengthen this digital backbone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When India and the United Kingdom signed the \u201cComprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)\u201d on July 24, 2025, it was celebrated as a breakthrough in trade diplomacy. For India, the deal is not just about reducing tariffs on goods but also about securing a more open and predictable environment for its service sectors and among them, telecommunications stands out as a critical focus area. Over the last decade, telecom has transformed from being merely a utility sector into a strategic enabler of India\u2019s Digital India vision, powering digital payments, e-governance, e-commerce and connectivity for nearly 1.2 billion mobile subscribers. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956859","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}