India, Jan. 23 -- India's telecom and digital infrastructure sectors are standing at the cusp of transformation. As the country completes a critical phase of 5G rollouts, data centre investments, and the consolidation of digital public infrastructure, attention is gradually shifting to what comes next.

Interestingly, this next phase will not be defined by incremental upgrades. Instead, it will be through deep-tech innovations that challenge conventional boundaries in network design, service delivery, and regulatory thinking.

Technologies that were until recently confined to research labs or pilots at different stages across the world-from quantum communications to silicon photonics and satellite-based compute-are now entering the periph...