{"id":989280,"date":"2026-02-02T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989280"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:14:11","slug":"telecom-sector-seeks-relief-coai-urges-government-to-slash-spectrum-prices-in-budget-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/telecom-sector-seeks-relief-coai-urges-government-to-slash-spectrum-prices-in-budget-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom sector seeks relief: COAI urges government to slash spectrum prices in Budget 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): Ahead of the upcoming Union Budget, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has called for a significant overhaul of the financial framework governing the telecom industry. Lt Gen (retd) Dr SP Kochhar, Director General of COAI, emphasised that the sector should be viewed not as a standalone industry but as the backbone of the entire economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], January 31 (ANI): Ahead of the upcoming Union Budget, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has called for a significant overhaul of the financial framework governing the telecom industry. Lt Gen (retd) Dr SP Kochhar, Director General of COAI, emphasised that the sector should be viewed not as a standalone industry but as the backbone of the entire economy.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989280","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=989280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}