{"id":996448,"date":"2026-03-06T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996448"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:03:45","slug":"connectivity-must-become-universally-affordable-says-scindia-at-mwc-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/connectivity-must-become-universally-affordable-says-scindia-at-mwc-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Connectivity must become universally affordable, says Scindia at MWC 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona: The Union Minister for Communications, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, led India&#8217;s engagements at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, with high-level participation at the GSMA Ministerial Programme and the MWC Main Stage, outlining India&#8217;s vision for affordable, inclusive and future-ready digital connectivity. <\/p>\n<p>Scindia delivered the closing keynote address at the Ministerial Stage during the session themed &#8220;Breaking the Cost Barrier.&#8221; The session focused on addressing affordability challenges that continue to exclude 3.1 billion people globally from meaningful digital participation despite broadband coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona: The Union Minister for Communications, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, led India&#8217;s engagements at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, with high-level participation at the GSMA Ministerial Programme and the MWC Main Stage, outlining India&#8217;s vision for affordable, inclusive and future-ready digital connectivity. Scindia delivered the closing keynote address at the Ministerial Stage during the session themed &#8220;Breaking the Cost Barrier.&#8221; The session focused on addressing affordability challenges that continue to exclude 3.1 billion people globally from meaningful digital participation despite broadband coverage.<\/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-996448","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\/996448","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=996448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}