{"id":977480,"date":"2025-12-01T08:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977480"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:02:11","slug":"trai-likely-to-cut-backhaul-spectrum-fee-by-50-to-ease-telcos-cost-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/01\/trai-likely-to-cut-backhaul-spectrum-fee-by-50-to-ease-telcos-cost-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Trai likely to cut backhaul spectrum fee by 50% to ease telcos&#8217; cost burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is likely to slash backhaul spectrum pricing by as much as 50%, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would ease the financial burden of telecom operators and allow them to save a few hundred crores annually. Telcos currently pay 0.15-3.95% of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) as charges for utilising backhaul airwaves. The rate varies depending on the number of backhaul carriers used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is likely to slash backhaul spectrum pricing by as much as 50%, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would ease the financial burden of telecom operators and allow them to save a few hundred crores annually. Telcos currently pay 0.15-3.95% of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) as charges for utilising backhaul airwaves. The rate varies depending on the number of backhaul carriers used.<\/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-977480","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\/977480","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=977480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}