{"id":969105,"date":"2025-10-24T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969105"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:25:40","slug":"gsma-bats-for-arpu-raise-for-telcos-to-up-network-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/gsma-bats-for-arpu-raise-for-telcos-to-up-network-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"GSMA bats for ARPU raise for telcos to up network spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: London-based telco group GSMA said that there is a need for India&#8217;s incumbent telecom carriers &#8212; Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) &#8212; to increase their average revenue per user or ARPU in order to increase the current level of network investments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The improvement of ARPU is needed to match the scale of investment that is required to serve customers, and there is still a lot to be done,&#8221; GSMA Director-General Vivek Badrinath told ETTelecom, adding that the revenue per user historically remains low in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: London-based telco group GSMA said that there is a need for India&#8217;s incumbent telecom carriers &#8212; Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) &#8212; to increase their average revenue per user or ARPU in order to increase the current level of network investments. &#8220;The improvement of ARPU is needed to match the scale of investment that is required to serve customers, and there is still a lot to be done,&#8221; GSMA Director-General Vivek Badrinath told ETTelecom, adding that the revenue per user historically remains low in India.<\/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-969105","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\/969105","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=969105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}