{"id":991481,"date":"2026-02-12T08:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991481"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:59:51","slug":"telcos-invest-%e2%82%b94-lakh-crore-in-5g-subscribers-to-reach-1-bn-by-2031-says-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/telcos-invest-%e2%82%b94-lakh-crore-in-5g-subscribers-to-reach-1-bn-by-2031-says-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos invest \u20b94 lakh crore in 5G, subscribers to reach 1 bn by 2031, says Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian telecom carriers have invested nearly \u20b94 lakh crore in deploying fifth-generation (5G) networks nationwide, Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as 5G is concerned, 5G networks are available in 99.9% districts of India today. About 5 lakh BTSs (base transceiver stations) have been deployed, and \u20b94 lakh crore has been invested by our TSPs (telecom service providers),\u201d Scindia said. <\/p>\n<p>40 crore subscribers, from a total base of 1.2 billion telephone users, are accessing the latest generation networks today, according to the minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Indian telecom carriers have invested nearly \u20b94 lakh crore in deploying fifth-generation (5G) networks nationwide, Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. \u201cAs far as 5G is concerned, 5G networks are available in 99.9% districts of India today. About 5 lakh BTSs (base transceiver stations) have been deployed, and \u20b94 lakh crore has been invested by our TSPs (telecom service providers),\u201d Scindia said. 40 crore subscribers, from a total base of 1.2 billion telephone users, are accessing the latest generation networks today, according to the minister.<\/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-991481","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\/991481","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=991481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}