Telecom Sector News

A Decisive Phase: Satcom, new licensing rules and 6G to power future telecom growth

September 11, 2026

India’s telecom sector entered a decisive implementation and construction phase this year, as regulatory policy finally aligned with three years of deep foundational and preparatory work. Moving beyond mere consolidation, the industry is now navigating […]

Making Strides: Key developments in the telecom sector

September 11, 2026

The past year has been a defining period for the Indian telecommunications sector. Driven by progressive policy and regulatory shifts, the industry has taken significant strides towards self-reliance and digitalisation. Overall, there has been growth […]

Views of Jyotiraditya M. Scindia: “The aim is to connect 1 billion people on 5G by 2030”

September 11, 2026

India’s telecom sector has moved from expanding basic connectivity to becoming a foundation for digital, economic and technological transformation. Rapid growth in mobile, internet and broadband access, falling connectivity costs and the accelerated roll-out of […]

Telecom Priorities: Creating a digitally enabled and future-ready connectivity ecosystem

September 11, 2026

The telecom sector stands on considerably stronger ground than it did a decade ago, yet the distance between policy ambition and ground-level execution remains one of its most persistent challenges. With the National Telecom Policy […]

Powering AI: Expert views on the evolving data centre landscape

September 11, 2026

India’s data centre growth has brought foundational questions into focus. The debate has moved well beyond capacity targets, focusing instead on where new facilities will be built, how they will handle the thermal demands of […]

Fiberisation – the roll-out of optical fibre networks – is key to the efficient provision of broadband connectivity at scale. The structural demand for fibre is driven by the conjunction of several trends. These include […]

Migrating to the Cloud: Moving from legacy systems to scalable, intelligent digital infrastructure

May 6, 2026

Over the past few years, almost every enterprise, and most individuals as well, have migrated to the cloud, or are in the process of migrating. This has completely changed the way the world does business. […]

Interview with Akhil Gupta: “Everybody has to adopt AI”

March 6, 2026

The Indian telecom sector stands at a critical juncture, with 5G monetisation, satcom operationalisation, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven efficiency and infrastructure sharing emerging as key priorities. In an interview with Indian Infrastructure, Akhil Gupta, Vice Chairman, […]

Protecting Personal Data: DPDP Rules set strong safeguards, but some concerns remain

January 9, 2026

More than two years after the passage of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act in August 2023, the DPDP Rules, 2025 were notified on November 14, 2025. This gives the DPDP Act both the […]

High-growth Phase: Data centre expansion to drive India’s trillion-dollar digital vision

December 10, 2025

Unaise Urfi, Partner, KPMG in India India is building up data centre facilities, which will create the infrastructure that will support the country’s trillion-dollar digital economy. For decades, the development of the data centre space […]

Digital Backbone: Data centres emerge as a strategic infrastructure asset

December 10, 2025

Swapnil Srivastava, Director, TMT, EY Parthenon Recently, there have been a slew of multi-billion-dollar investment announcements in the data centre space in India – be it from global hyperscalers, Indian conglomerates or centre and state […]

Designing for Density: Scaling up data centres to meet compute-intensive workloads

December 10, 2025

India’s data centre ecosystem is entering a new phase. What used to be a market centred on basic cloud hosting has evolved into one where power availability, cooling efficiency and regional reach matter as much […]

Powering the AI Era: Why efficiency standards must guide India’s data centre build-out

December 10, 2025

Nitin Bajpai, Consultant, and Venugopal Mothkoor, Climate and Energy Modelling Specialist, NITI Aayog India is quietly becoming one of the world’s key data centre markets. Every time an Indian user streams a movie, uploads data […]

Rewiring Infrastructure: New AI workloads redefine India’s data centre blueprint

December 10, 2025

As enterprises move deeper into generative artificial intelligence (AI), large language models and accelerator-driven workloads, the requirements for compute, power and cooling have expanded far beyond what conventional data centre facilities were designed to deliver. […]

Driving the Shift: Next-gen technologies accelerate edge data centre adoption

December 10, 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, a wave of new technologies is emerging across India. The growing popularity of extended reality (XR) and virtual reality (VR) products is enhancing the user experience, enabling functionalities such […]

Localisation Drive: Telecom sector seeks to build homegrown resilience

November 9, 2025

India’s telecom sector has steadily pushed for localisation, in line with the central government’s goal of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar Bharat). Telecom equipment spans core networks, radio access network (RAN), semiconductors, optical fibre, 5G gear, edge devices […]

Telecom Trends: Technology and infrastructure advances set the stage for accelerated growth

September 19, 2025

India’s telecom sector witnessed significant policy, technology and infrastructure developments in the past year. […]

Positive Signals: Key developments in the telecom sector

September 19, 2025

India’s telecom sector witnessed many policy and regulatory changes in 2024-25, the most important being the release of the draft National Telecom Policy, 2025 (NTP 25) for public consultation. Other key developments included the formulation […]