Connectivity to capability: Rethinking telecom’s role in India’s techade

India’s telecom sector has solved for abundance. Data is no longer scarce, access is no longer a privilege and connectivity is no longer the constraint it once was. Yet, this very success has created a paradox. When networks become ubiquitous, their value is no longer defined by reach, but by what they enable. The real challenge now is not expanding access, but extracting economic meaning from it. In the techade, the question is no longer how many Indians are connected, but how effectively that connectivity is being converted into productivity, innovation and growth.