{"id":962975,"date":"2025-09-20T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962975"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:38:13","slug":"india-has-mobile-generation-gap-2g-users-missing-out-on-digital-benefits-reliance-jios-shyam-mardikar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/india-has-mobile-generation-gap-2g-users-missing-out-on-digital-benefits-reliance-jios-shyam-mardikar\/","title":{"rendered":"India has \u2018mobile generation\u2019 gap; 2G users missing out on digital benefits: Reliance Jio\u2019s Shyam Mardikar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s top telecom operator, Reliance Jio, said on Friday that India has a mobile technology generational gap, and not a digital divide, as it reiterated its case for upgrading 2G users to the modern networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRural consumers in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra consume more data than consumers in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru. The rural user has better devices, more consumption, and more time spent (on the internet),\u201d said Shyam P Mardikar, president &amp; group CTO mobility at Reliance Jio Infocomm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s top telecom operator, Reliance Jio, said on Friday that India has a mobile technology generational gap, and not a digital divide, as it reiterated its case for upgrading 2G users to the modern networks. \u201cRural consumers in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra consume more data than consumers in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru. The rural user has better devices, more consumption, and more time spent (on the internet),\u201d said Shyam P Mardikar, president &amp; group CTO mobility at Reliance Jio Infocomm.<\/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-962975","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\/962975","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=962975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}