Trusted or not? DoT allows Huawei to test telecom gear; official moved out

In what appears to be a slip, a DoT wing granted certificates to Huawei India last month to start the testing process of gears, according to a source

Just when the government was finalising the national security directive for the telecom sector, the Department of Telecom­munications got caught in an unusual tangle over Chinese vendors.

In what appears to be a slip, Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC), a DoT wing, granted certificates to Huawei Telecommunications India Pvt Ltd last month, to start the testing process of gears, according to a source in the know. A top official is learnt to have got transfer orders after the incident even as the DoT rushed to put the certificates in abeyance after realising the error.        

On Wednesday, the Cabinet