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Telecom major Reliance Jio has received approval enabling it to use equipment from various vendors, including Ericsson, Nokia Networks, Cisco, and Dell, which have been endorsed as a ‘trusted source’ by the National Security Council Secretariat.
The move will pave the way for telecom companies to take the next steps in ordering specific equipment, particularly for the upcoming 5G roll-out from these vendors.
The National Security Directive for Telecom has made it mandatory for all OEM players as well as for their equipment to get a ‘trusted’ tag before they can be bought by telecom firms. In the first level, the OEM
