{"id":958916,"date":"2025-09-03T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958916"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:25:36","slug":"dot-rejects-trai-plan-to-charge-paltry-%e2%82%b9500-urban-satcom-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/03\/dot-rejects-trai-plan-to-charge-paltry-%e2%82%b9500-urban-satcom-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT rejects Trai plan to charge &#8216;paltry&#8217; \u20b9500 urban satcom levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The telecom department has rejected the regulator&#8217;s proposal that seeks to charge satcom companies an additional \u20b9500 annually per urban subscriber to help prioritise rural rollouts, officials aware of the details told ET.<\/p>\n<p>The department has sought to understand the rationale behind the figures suggested by the industry regulator, although it has accepted the pricing proposed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for satellite spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The telecom department has rejected the regulator&#8217;s proposal that seeks to charge satcom companies an additional \u20b9500 annually per urban subscriber to help prioritise rural rollouts, officials aware of the details told ET. The department has sought to understand the rationale behind the figures suggested by the industry regulator, although it has accepted the pricing proposed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for satellite spectrum.<\/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-958916","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\/958916","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=958916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}