Trai bats for homemade telecom equipment

Issues paper to identify policy and incentives, aims to beat security threat from foreign goods

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has suggested manufacturing telecom equipment in the country to offset security concerns because of excessive reliance on foreign-made goods. It has issued a paper to identify policy measures, address issues of standardisation, and noted incentives that can be given to industry.

Titled “Promoting local telecom equipment manufacturing”, Trai’s paper claims there has been exponential growth in technology in the telecom sector. “While the mobile handset manufacturing industry has shown good progress in the past five years, the telecom equipment manufacturing industry has not been able to match the performance.”

The regulator said a