{"id":976726,"date":"2025-11-27T08:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976726"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:15:27","slug":"telcos-plan-%e2%82%b93-lakh-crore-capex-to-get-future-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/27\/telcos-plan-%e2%82%b93-lakh-crore-capex-to-get-future-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos plan \u20b93-lakh crore capex to get future-ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India&#8217;s telecom industry is projected to spend as much as \u20b92.5-3 lakh crore on capital expenditure over the next three to five years as companies pivot from coverage expansion to network densification, fiberisation, and AI-driven optimisation, said analysts. This would mark a shift from the sector&#8217;s peak capex cycle in FY24 for rolling out 5G services across the country, achieving 90% coverage. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An estimated \u20b92.5-3 lakh crore of additional industry capex over the next 3-5 years is set to be driven by rising data consumption at 22 GB per user per month, FWA expansion, and rural backhaul,&#8221; said Shilpa Malaiya Singhai, managing director at Alvarez &amp; Marsal India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India&#8217;s telecom industry is projected to spend as much as \u20b92.5-3 lakh crore on capital expenditure over the next three to five years as companies pivot from coverage expansion to network densification, fiberisation, and AI-driven optimisation, said analysts. This would mark a shift from the sector&#8217;s peak capex cycle in FY24 for rolling out 5G services across the country, achieving 90% coverage. &#8220;An estimated \u20b92.5-3 lakh crore of additional industry capex over the next 3-5 years is set to be driven by rising data consumption at 22 GB per user per month, FWA expansion, and rural backhaul,&#8221; said Shilpa [&hellip;]<\/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-976726","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\/976726","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=976726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}