{"id":988655,"date":"2026-01-30T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988655"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:07:07","slug":"vodafone-idea-eyes-foray-into-5g-fwa-seeks-satcom-clearances-abhijit-kishore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/vodafone-idea-eyes-foray-into-5g-fwa-seeks-satcom-clearances-abhijit-kishore\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone Idea eyes foray into 5G FWA, seeks satcom clearances: Abhijit Kishore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea\u2019s (Vi) chief executive Abhijit Kishore said the telecom carrier is evaluating a foray into the commercial 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) service, which will enable it to expand into the home broadband and SOHO (small office\/home office) segments. <\/p>\n<p>He added that the telco is in the process of attaining necessary regulatory clearances to launch a non-terrestrial network (NTN)-based communication service with its American partner, AST SpaceMobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea\u2019s (Vi) chief executive Abhijit Kishore said the telecom carrier is evaluating a foray into the commercial 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) service, which will enable it to expand into the home broadband and SOHO (small office\/home office) segments. He added that the telco is in the process of attaining necessary regulatory clearances to launch a non-terrestrial network (NTN)-based communication service with its American partner, AST SpaceMobile.<\/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-988655","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\/988655","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=988655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}