{"id":982482,"date":"2025-12-30T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982482"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:36:52","slug":"bsnls-additional-4g-sites-5g-upgrade-soon-chandra-sekhar-pemmasani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/bsnls-additional-4g-sites-5g-upgrade-soon-chandra-sekhar-pemmasani\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL&#8217;s additional 4G sites, 5G upgrade soon: Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will soon roll out an additional 23,000 fourth-generation or 4G sites, and upgrade the network to next-generation (5G) technology that includes using a revenue-share model to catch up with the private sector players. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For 5G, there are a couple of variations that we are working on, including 5G-as-a-service. Firstly, some private players can install 5G equipment and BSNL can work with them on a revenue-sharing basis. Second is upgrading the existing 4G to 5G,&#8221; Minister of State for Communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani told ETTelecom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will soon roll out an additional 23,000 fourth-generation or 4G sites, and upgrade the network to next-generation (5G) technology that includes using a revenue-share model to catch up with the private sector players. &#8220;For 5G, there are a couple of variations that we are working on, including 5G-as-a-service. Firstly, some private players can install 5G equipment and BSNL can work with them on a revenue-sharing basis. Second is upgrading the existing 4G to 5G,&#8221; Minister of State for Communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani told ETTelecom.<\/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-982482","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\/982482","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=982482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}