{"id":967323,"date":"2025-10-11T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967323"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:40:00","slug":"5g-to-boost-indias-rural-development-ericssons-andres-vicente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/11\/5g-to-boost-indias-rural-development-ericssons-andres-vicente\/","title":{"rendered":"5G to boost India&#8217;s rural development: Ericsson&#8217;s Andres Vicente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India continues to outpace China and the US with the highest gigabyte (GB) per smartphone user consumption worldwide, with the next generation (5G) network supporting the development of the country&#8217;s rural regions, a senior Ericsson executive said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India today accounts the highest consumption per gigabyte per user &#8211; more than 32 GB (per month), which is significantly ahead of the US and China,&#8221; Andres Vicente, head of Southeast Asia, Oceania &amp; India, Ericsson said, adding that &#8220;5G is supporting the development of rural areas&#8221; and reaching the gap in technology in those areas that really need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India continues to outpace China and the US with the highest gigabyte (GB) per smartphone user consumption worldwide, with the next generation (5G) network supporting the development of the country&#8217;s rural regions, a senior Ericsson executive said. &#8220;India today accounts the highest consumption per gigabyte per user &#8211; more than 32 GB (per month), which is significantly ahead of the US and China,&#8221; Andres Vicente, head of Southeast Asia, Oceania &amp; India, Ericsson said, adding that &#8220;5G is supporting the development of rural areas&#8221; and reaching the gap in technology in those areas that really need it.<\/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-967323","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\/967323","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=967323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}