{"id":975181,"date":"2025-11-20T08:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975181"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:02:40","slug":"state-rules-delay-broadband-5g-expansion-plans-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/20\/state-rules-delay-broadband-5g-expansion-plans-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"State rules delay broadband, 5G expansion plans: Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Inconsistent state-level policies, approvals and tariff classifications are causing delays and cost overruns disrupting fibre and small cell deployments, slowing India&#8217;s broadband and 5G expansion goals, experts and telecom infrastructure companies said. <\/p>\n<p>These issues are creating obstacles despite the central government&#8217;s efforts to support the process, including notification of the Right of Way (RoW) Rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Inconsistent state-level policies, approvals and tariff classifications are causing delays and cost overruns disrupting fibre and small cell deployments, slowing India&#8217;s broadband and 5G expansion goals, experts and telecom infrastructure companies said. These issues are creating obstacles despite the central government&#8217;s efforts to support the process, including notification of the Right of Way (RoW) Rules.<\/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-975181","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\/975181","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=975181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}