{"id":987044,"date":"2026-01-22T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987044"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:58:41","slug":"centre-clears-licence-free-use-of-lower-6-ghz-spectrum-for-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/centre-clears-licence-free-use-of-lower-6-ghz-spectrum-for-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre clears licence-free use of lower 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The centre has cleared licence-exempt use of a key portion of the 6 GHz spectrum, covering 5925 MHz to 6425 MHz for the roll-out of next-generation high-speed Wi-Fi networks. <\/p>\n<p>Under the new regime, devices operating in the lower 6 GHz band, which have traditionally been restricted for licensed telecom use can now be deployed without a licence or spectrum assignment, provided they adhere to prescribed technical specifications and operate on a non-interference, shared and non-protection basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The centre has cleared licence-exempt use of a key portion of the 6 GHz spectrum, covering 5925 MHz to 6425 MHz for the roll-out of next-generation high-speed Wi-Fi networks. Under the new regime, devices operating in the lower 6 GHz band, which have traditionally been restricted for licensed telecom use can now be deployed without a licence or spectrum assignment, provided they adhere to prescribed technical specifications and operate on a non-interference, shared and non-protection basis.<\/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-987044","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\/987044","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=987044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}