{"id":987358,"date":"2026-01-24T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987358"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:25:30","slug":"airtel-starts-mobile-connectivity-on-kolkatas-vidyasagar-setu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/airtel-starts-mobile-connectivity-on-kolkatas-vidyasagar-setu\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel starts mobile connectivity on Kolkata&#8217;s &#8216;Vidyasagar Setu&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it has become the first telecom service provider to deliver &#8220;seamless&#8221; mobile connectivity on Kolkata&#8217;s &#8216;Vidyasagar Setu&#8217; over the Hooghly River <\/p>\n<p>The project, aimed at providing uninterrupted voice and data services on the critical link between Kolkata and Howrah, involved laying 1.3 km of fibre across the entire stretch and deploying network antennas over six poles to ensure zero drop zones, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it has become the first telecom service provider to deliver &#8220;seamless&#8221; mobile connectivity on Kolkata&#8217;s &#8216;Vidyasagar Setu&#8217; over the Hooghly River The project, aimed at providing uninterrupted voice and data services on the critical link between Kolkata and Howrah, involved laying 1.3 km of fibre across the entire stretch and deploying network antennas over six poles to ensure zero drop zones, the company said in a statement.<\/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-987358","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\/987358","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=987358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}