{"id":966963,"date":"2025-10-09T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966963"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:42:35","slug":"more-targeted-interventions-needed-to-shrink-indias-urban-rural-teledensity-divide-ookla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/09\/more-targeted-interventions-needed-to-shrink-indias-urban-rural-teledensity-divide-ookla\/","title":{"rendered":"More targeted interventions needed to shrink India\u2019s urban-rural teledensity divide: Ookla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A significant mobile penetration disparity continues to exist between rural and urban India, despite the affordable tariffs and the nationwide availability of 4G along with the ongoing expansion of fifth-generation or 5G networks by Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), according to a new report. <\/p>\n<p>The national average of mobile penetration stood at 82.74% in the first half of 2025, according to Ookla, an internet testing firm. The urban mobile penetration stood at 125.3%, while rural India\u2019s was significantly lower at 58.8% during the same period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A significant mobile penetration disparity continues to exist between rural and urban India, despite the affordable tariffs and the nationwide availability of 4G along with the ongoing expansion of fifth-generation or 5G networks by Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea (Vi), according to a new report. The national average of mobile penetration stood at 82.74% in the first half of 2025, according to Ookla, an internet testing firm. The urban mobile penetration stood at 125.3%, while rural India\u2019s was significantly lower at 58.8% during the same period.<\/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-966963","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\/966963","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=966963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}