India lifts ban from Chinese equipment vendors

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The ban imposed on the Chinese vendors by the Indian government has been lifted but all their equipments will have to go through rigorous security checks before certification. The decision has been taken after two days of prime ministerial talks, which also involved India’s home and telecom ministries and the country’s Intelligence Bureau and National Informatics Center (NIC).

Diplomatic and trade row which has been raged between India and China after the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) told operators that it would not give security approval for the purchase of Huawei or ZTE networking gear in April has been ended by the agreement.

According to the new plan, for the next 12 months Chinese-made infrastructure will need to be certified by international security audit firms, such as Canada’s Electronic Warfare Associates, US-based Infoguard and Israel’s ALTAL Security Consulting and mobile operators on the other hand will have to provide bank guarantees as part of a self-certification process of imported telco infrastructure.