{"id":956958,"date":"2025-08-23T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956958"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:56:53","slug":"cm-pinarayi-vijayan-launches-kfon-ott-platform-calls-it-kerala-model-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/cm-pinarayi-vijayan-launches-kfon-ott-platform-calls-it-kerala-model-project\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Pinarayi Vijayan launches KFON OTT platform, calls it &#8216;Kerala model project&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday launched the Kerala Fibre Optic Network (KFON) OTT platform here, describing it as a &#8220;state model project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister recalled the initial scepticism and legal challenges KFON faced in its early days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some claimed the project would never take off. Others predicted it would not last. But within a year, we reached one lakh connections and even secured an ISPA licence to expand across India,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday launched the Kerala Fibre Optic Network (KFON) OTT platform here, describing it as a &#8220;state model project.&#8221; The chief minister recalled the initial scepticism and legal challenges KFON faced in its early days. &#8220;Some claimed the project would never take off. Others predicted it would not last. But within a year, we reached one lakh connections and even secured an ISPA licence to expand across India,&#8221; he said.<\/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-956958","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\/956958","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=956958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}