{"id":985201,"date":"2026-01-14T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985201"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:10:33","slug":"budget-2026-wishlist-telcos-body-coai-seeks-cut-in-regulatory-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/budget-2026-wishlist-telcos-body-coai-seeks-cut-in-regulatory-levies\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026 Wishlist: Telcos&#8217; body COAI seeks cut in regulatory levies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telcos&#8217; industry body COAI has sought reduction in regulatory levies, including in licence fee to 0.5-1 per cent from three per cent, in the upcoming Budget. <\/p>\n<p>In its submission to the government, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) suggested that funds to the Digital Bharat Nidhi should be paused till the time unused corpus is completely utilised by the telecom department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telcos&#8217; industry body COAI has sought reduction in regulatory levies, including in licence fee to 0.5-1 per cent from three per cent, in the upcoming Budget. In its submission to the government, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) suggested that funds to the Digital Bharat Nidhi should be paused till the time unused corpus is completely utilised by the telecom department.<\/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-985201","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\/985201","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=985201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}