{"id":999589,"date":"2026-03-27T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999589"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:44:23","slug":"communications-minister-jyotiraditya-scindia-says-bsnls-4g-delay-due-to-indigenous-tech-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/communications-minister-jyotiraditya-scindia-says-bsnls-4g-delay-due-to-indigenous-tech-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia says BSNL&#8217;s 4G delay due to indigenous tech bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The delay in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)&#8217;s 4G rollout was due to India&#8217;s decision to develop an indigenous technology stack instead of procuring foreign equipment, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Thursday. Despite the delay, BSNL has built and deployed a proprietary stack in 22 months, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Around 98,000 towers are currently radiating 4G signals using the homegrown technology, with another 50,000-60,000 towers planned. This will be followed by a transition to 5G, he added. &#8220;The reason why the rollout of 4G has taken time is because we chose to develop our own stack. Countries across the world haven&#8217;t done it. India did it in 22 months,&#8221; Scindia said at the Times Now Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The delay in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)&#8217;s 4G rollout was due to India&#8217;s decision to develop an indigenous technology stack instead of procuring foreign equipment, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Thursday. Despite the delay, BSNL has built and deployed a proprietary stack in 22 months, he said. Around 98,000 towers are currently radiating 4G signals using the homegrown technology, with another 50,000-60,000 towers planned. This will be followed by a transition to 5G, he added. &#8220;The reason why the rollout of 4G has taken time is because we chose to develop our own stack. Countries across [&hellip;]<\/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-999589","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\/999589","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=999589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}