Review blanket ban, says Tata
Tata Teleservices has asked the telecom department to reconsider the “blanket” ban imposed on the purchase of the telecom equipment from Chinese vendors.
Last week, Tata wrote two letters to the telecom depa-rtment seeking greater clarity on the issue. The company is concerned that the ban on these Chinese equi-pment vendors may impact the expansion plans of the company as it has been us-ing their equipment for the last three years. Other telecom firms are likely to be affected too as China made equipment is used extensi-vely by Indian telecom firms. “Dut to rejection of these vendors we are una-ble to expand our CDMA network further and thus have started facing problems pertaining to quality of standards (QoS),” said the company in a letter written to the telecom department on May 11.
It said that the company’s stakeholders are alarmed by the sudden action of the telecom department without any industry consultations and “without taking them into confidence.” The company also said that existing equipment supplied by Chinese vendors can also be used for providing 3G services — which will provide a major saving.
Since February this year, the telecom ministry hasn’t given companies the permission to equipment manufactured by Chinese firms such as Huawei and ZTE. Last year the government had banned the import of those Chinese mobile phones which don’t ave international mobile equipment identity numbers.
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