BSNL 4G: DoT Panel Wants Indian Core, SI Approach, Source Code Of Telecom Gear
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) panel for Bharat Sanchat Nigam Ltd.’s (BSNL) 4G tender has recommended allowing only Indian companies to provide core network products and services to the state-run telco.
“The core shall be Indian…Indian vendor need to pass through PoC for provenness of the product…not more that two System Integrators can offer PoC for Indian Core, if that fails, BSNL will be not able to procure Core,” the committee said in its recommendations, reviewed by ET.
The government had set up a panel to recommend fresh clauses for BSNL’s 4G expansion tender. This, after the government a few months back cancelled the Rs 8,697 crore(US$1.18million) 4G contract of the telco for over 50,000 sites in the backdrop of heightened Indo-China border tensions. The previous vendors – Finland’s Nokia and China’s ZTE – had been asked to upgrade the telco’s 2G and 3G networks to 4G, but this was cancelled. The government has since decided not to allow Chinese telecom gear makers like Huawei and ZTE from participating in the bidding process to provide 4G gear to state-run telcos.
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