{"id":966987,"date":"2025-10-09T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966987"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:54:55","slug":"rural-mobile-penetration-continues-to-lag-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/09\/rural-mobile-penetration-continues-to-lag-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural mobile penetration continues to lag: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A significant mobile penetration disparity continues to exist between rural and urban India, despite affordable tariffs and nationwide availability of 4G along with the ongoing expansion of fifth-generation or 5G networks by Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, according to a report by Ookla, an internet testing firm. <\/p>\n<p>Mobile penetration in India stood at 82.74% on average in the first half of 2025, according to the report. Urban mobile penetration stood at 125.3%, while rural India&#8217;s was significantly lower at 58.8% during the period. Mobile penetrationrefers to the number of telephone connections per 100 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A significant mobile penetration disparity continues to exist between rural and urban India, despite affordable tariffs and nationwide availability of 4G along with the ongoing expansion of fifth-generation or 5G networks by Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, according to a report by Ookla, an internet testing firm. Mobile penetration in India stood at 82.74% on average in the first half of 2025, according to the report. Urban mobile penetration stood at 125.3%, while rural India&#8217;s was significantly lower at 58.8% during the period. Mobile penetrationrefers to the number of telephone connections per 100 people.<\/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-966987","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\/966987","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=966987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}