{"id":963511,"date":"2025-09-23T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963511"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:45:40","slug":"vi-plans-satellite-services-for-2026-advances-5g-and-anti-fraud-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/vi-plans-satellite-services-for-2026-advances-5g-and-anti-fraud-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Vi plans satellite services for 2026, advances 5G and anti-fraud tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) expects to enter space-based cellular broadband networks by mid-2026 as its partner AST Spacemobile awaits government licensing, a senior official said. <\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Idea chief technology officer Jagbir Singh said the telco\u2019s 5G deployment across 29-30 cities in 17 circles has led to a 25-30% increase in total data traffic volume boosted by growing 5G device adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone Idea (Vi) expects to enter space-based cellular broadband networks by mid-2026 as its partner AST Spacemobile awaits government licensing, a senior official said. Vodafone Idea chief technology officer Jagbir Singh said the telco\u2019s 5G deployment across 29-30 cities in 17 circles has led to a 25-30% increase in total data traffic volume boosted by growing 5G device adoption.<\/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-963511","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\/963511","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=963511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}