{"id":975913,"date":"2025-11-22T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975913"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:31:32","slug":"the-beat-report-the-long-arc-of-telecom-and-why-the-vi-story-pulled-me-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/22\/the-beat-report-the-long-arc-of-telecom-and-why-the-vi-story-pulled-me-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The beat report: The long arc of telecom, and why the Vi story pulled me back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The Beat Report, Mint&#8217;s journalists bring you unique perspectives on their beats, breaking down new trends and developments, and sharing behind-the-scenes stories from their reporting.<\/p>\n<p>I have been writing about telecom long enough to remember a time when it was not even considered a \u201csector\u201d. When the New Telecom Policy of 1999 was introduced, I wasn\u2019t a telecom correspondent\u2014not by designation, not by instinct. I found myself pulled into it almost accidentally, because India\u2019s most storied entrepreneur at the time, Dhirubhai Ambani, had decided it was his next big bet. When Ambani chose a field, it stopped being a niche beat. It became an arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Beat Report, Mint&#8217;s journalists bring you unique perspectives on their beats, breaking down new trends and developments, and sharing behind-the-scenes stories from their reporting. I have been writing about telecom long enough to remember a time when it was not even considered a \u201csector\u201d. When the New Telecom Policy of 1999 was introduced, I wasn\u2019t a telecom correspondent\u2014not by designation, not by instinct. I found myself pulled into it almost accidentally, because India\u2019s most storied entrepreneur at the time, Dhirubhai Ambani, had decided it was his next big bet. When Ambani chose a field, it stopped being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975913","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}