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Domestic equipment vendors charge up to 89% more, BSNL tells DoT

The rates offered by the local gear makers for some key BSNL contracts have been 49 to 89 per cent higher than those from global players

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BSNL has also stated that domestic vendors have not even participated in 20 of the 35 central tenders floated by the company in the last five years.

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has listed out the major reasons why domestic equipment vendors have not been good news for the telecom company. 

Responding to a Department of Telecommunications (DoT) query on various issues related to the make-in-India scheme, BSNL has blamed the uncompetitive rates offered by domestic vendors for their lacklustre performance in the past five years.     

The rates offered by the local gear makers for some key BSNL contracts have been 49 to 89 per cent higher than those from global players, the telco said in a letter that was reviewed by Business Standard. 

DoT had asked

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