India, April 11 -- In a significant step towards building India's own telecom infrastructure, three leading organisations, FSID at IISc Bengaluru, FITT at IIT Delhi, and C-DAC, have come together to develop open-source communication networks for 5G, 5G Advanced, and 6G technologies.

The Foundation for Science Innovation and Development (FSID), the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have signed a key collaboration agreement. These three institutions are acting as the core "Strategic Partners" in a broader effort involving 16 more organisations from the telecom, R&D, startup, and academic sectors.

The joint initiative, called the Indian Open-Source Platfor...