{"id":963262,"date":"2025-09-22T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963262"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:24:29","slug":"reliance-jio-bharti-airtel-treat-telecom-as-essential-service-provide-ubiquitous-access-to-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/22\/reliance-jio-bharti-airtel-treat-telecom-as-essential-service-provide-ubiquitous-access-to-venues\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel: Treat telecom as \u2018essential service\u2019, provide ubiquitous access to venues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The top executives of India\u2019s leading private sector telecom operators, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, have called on the Centre to treat telecom as an \u201cessential service\u201d and sought affordable airwaves. <\/p>\n<p>This followed after Department of Telecommunications Secretary Neeraj Mittal, at the second-edition of the ETTelecom 5G Innovation Summit 2025, said that the government awaited suggestions from the industry for next-generation reforms to unleash the potential of telecoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The top executives of India\u2019s leading private sector telecom operators, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, have called on the Centre to treat telecom as an \u201cessential service\u201d and sought affordable airwaves. This followed after Department of Telecommunications Secretary Neeraj Mittal, at the second-edition of the ETTelecom 5G Innovation Summit 2025, said that the government awaited suggestions from the industry for next-generation reforms to unleash the potential of telecoms.<\/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-963262","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\/963262","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=963262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}