{"id":983288,"date":"2026-01-05T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983288"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:07:03","slug":"internet-players-non-telcos-demand-agr-relief-after-voda-ideas-big-breather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/05\/internet-players-non-telcos-demand-agr-relief-after-voda-ideas-big-breather\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet players, non-telcos demand AGR relief after Voda Idea&#8217;s big breather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Relief granted to Vodafone Idea on its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues has triggered demand for similar government support from hundreds of standalone internet service providers (ISPs) and other non-telcos struggling under hefty AGR liabilities. <\/p>\n<p>These firms face AGR dues running into thousands of crores following a 2019 Supreme Court ruling, which prompted the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to raise demands against several companies beyond telcos, including ISPs, VSAT operators and public sector entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Relief granted to Vodafone Idea on its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues has triggered demand for similar government support from hundreds of standalone internet service providers (ISPs) and other non-telcos struggling under hefty AGR liabilities. These firms face AGR dues running into thousands of crores following a 2019 Supreme Court ruling, which prompted the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to raise demands against several companies beyond telcos, including ISPs, VSAT operators and public sector entities.<\/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-983288","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\/983288","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=983288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}