{"id":983500,"date":"2026-01-06T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983500"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:56:06","slug":"nhai-flags-424-mobile-blackspots-across-highways-seeks-better-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/nhai-flags-424-mobile-blackspots-across-highways-seeks-better-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI flags 424 mobile blackspots across highways, seeks better coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaps in mobile network coverage along highways and expressways are causing inconvenience to travellers as weak connectivity disrupts emergency communication with ambulances, patrol units and other responders during incidents. <\/p>\n<p>The national highway authority has identified 424 such \u201ctelecom blackspots\u201d covering around 1,750 km and has shared this with telecom regulator TRAI, urging it to direct operators to improve mobile network connectivity on these sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaps in mobile network coverage along highways and expressways are causing inconvenience to travellers as weak connectivity disrupts emergency communication with ambulances, patrol units and other responders during incidents. The national highway authority has identified 424 such \u201ctelecom blackspots\u201d covering around 1,750 km and has shared this with telecom regulator TRAI, urging it to direct operators to improve mobile network connectivity on these sections.<\/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-983500","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\/983500","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=983500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}