{"id":987353,"date":"2026-01-24T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987353"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:23:19","slug":"specs-in-works-for-22000-bsnl-4g-sites-further-expansion-likely-jyotiraditya-scindia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/specs-in-works-for-22000-bsnl-4g-sites-further-expansion-likely-jyotiraditya-scindia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Specs in works for 22,000 BSNL 4G sites, further expansion likely: Jyotiraditya Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is in the final stages of deciding specifications for an additional 22,000 fourth-generation or 4G sites and is considering further expansion of the next-generation network following funds from the Centre. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have got 1 lakh (4G) sites that are live. We are now processing the final specs for the new 22,000-site order. But, we are also thinking that we need to go beyond that, and for that we need fund flow for which I have met with the finance minister,&#8221; Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Communications and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) told ETTelecom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is in the final stages of deciding specifications for an additional 22,000 fourth-generation or 4G sites and is considering further expansion of the next-generation network following funds from the Centre. &#8220;We have got 1 lakh (4G) sites that are live. We are now processing the final specs for the new 22,000-site order. But, we are also thinking that we need to go beyond that, and for that we need fund flow for which I have met with the finance minister,&#8221; Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Communications and Development of North Eastern [&hellip;]<\/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-987353","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\/987353","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=987353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}