DoT may ask pvt mobile companies to refrain from buying Chinese gear
The Indian Express 18 June 2020 The move comes two days after the worst flare-up on the Line of Actual Control between Indian and Chinese troops in over five decades which resulted in 20 Indian army personnel being killed. After asking state-owned telecom companies BSNL and MTNL to rework their tenders for network upgradation to promote indigenous equipment makers, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is planning to ask private mobile companies to refrain from purchasing gear from Chinese vendors, according to senior government officials. The move comes two days after the worst flare-up on the Line of Actual Control between Indian and Chinese troops in over five decades which resulted in 20 Indian army personnel being killed.The government has also asked the public sector telecom companies to not use Chinese vendors in their procurements. This is an extension to the directive by the Centre sent to the companies to last month asking them to rework their t...