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Security clearance delay for equipment hits telecom gear makers

Without such certification, telcos cannot give product orders to vendors

Telecom Tower, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)
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The National Security Directive for Telecom has made it mandatory for providers to get the “trusted” tag on all telecom equipment that telcos want to buy from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
Telecom gear makers are not getting fresh orders from telcos because the government is yet to clear their applications for equipment which have to certified  “trusted source” and “trusted product” as part of the new rules of security for telecom products.
 
 Without such certification, operators cannot give firm orders to vendors (they do not know whether it will be a “trusted category” and ready for use or not) and the telecom gear maker can neither import nor manufacture the equipment, which in any case will require many weeks’ lead time. This move, they say, could jeopardise their plans in

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