{"id":986978,"date":"2026-01-22T07:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986978"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:11:43","slug":"india-delicenses-lower-6-ghz-band-for-faster-wi-fi-at-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/india-delicenses-lower-6-ghz-band-for-faster-wi-fi-at-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"India delicenses lower 6 GHz band for faster Wi-Fi at homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has delicensed the lower portion (5925-6425 MHz) of 6 GHz spectrum band for enabling indoor Wi-Fi use, which would also unlock Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 benefits for home users. <\/p>\n<p>The development comes close on the heels of a meeting on Tuesday evening, chaired by the Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia, permitting lower 6GHz spectrum band for the use of Wi-Fi services in India. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the government notified the \u201cLow Power and Very Low Power Wireless Access Rules, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has delicensed the lower portion (5925-6425 MHz) of 6 GHz spectrum band for enabling indoor Wi-Fi use, which would also unlock Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 benefits for home users. The development comes close on the heels of a meeting on Tuesday evening, chaired by the Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia, permitting lower 6GHz spectrum band for the use of Wi-Fi services in India. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the government notified the \u201cLow Power and Very Low Power Wireless Access Rules, 2026.\u201d<\/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-986978","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\/986978","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=986978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}