{"id":985279,"date":"2026-01-14T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985279"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:50:54","slug":"whats-behind-mobile-signal-drops-in-airports-metros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/whats-behind-mobile-signal-drops-in-airports-metros\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind mobile signal drops in airports &amp; metros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A standoff between telcos and standalone infrastructure owners over who controls mobile networks inside public facilities has led to network blackouts at the Navi Mumbai airport and the Mumbai Metro Aqua Line. It has now escalated into a commercial conflict, with travellers caught in the middle, explains Urvi Malvania. <\/p>\n<p>Why telcos are at war with metro &amp; airport owners <\/p>\n<p>The Dispute Centres on who controls and deploys telecom infrastructure\u2014specifically, in-building mobile networks\u2014inside large public transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A standoff between telcos and standalone infrastructure owners over who controls mobile networks inside public facilities has led to network blackouts at the Navi Mumbai airport and the Mumbai Metro Aqua Line. It has now escalated into a commercial conflict, with travellers caught in the middle, explains Urvi Malvania. Why telcos are at war with metro &amp; airport owners The Dispute Centres on who controls and deploys telecom infrastructure\u2014specifically, in-building mobile networks\u2014inside large public transport infrastructure.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985279","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=985279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}