Telecom gear makers welcome Trai recommendations on promoting local manufacturing
04 Aug 2018
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s report, Recommendations on promoting local telecom equipment manufacturing, have been welcomed by telecom gear makers.
“The Trai recommendations to promote local telecom equipment manufacturing is a welcome move by the regulator,” said Sanjeev Kakkar, vice-chairman, Telecom System Design & Manufacturing. “The aim to make India net zero importer of telecom equipment by 2022 is particularly noteworthy.”
The Trai has urged that India should aim to be net zero importer of telecommunications equipment by 2022. “It is now critical that these recommendations are implemented in true spirit for the benefit of the domestic manufacturers and thereby the country,” said Kakkar.
The authority said that the Telecom Equipment Manufacturing Council should identify and recommend specific areas of priorities to achieve the objective of ‘net zero imports of telecom equipment.’
For promoting research, innovation, standardisation, design, testing, certification and manufacturing indigenous telecom equipment, it has suggested the setting up of a telecom Research and Development Fund with an initial corpus of Rs1,000 crore.
The Trai has also suggested that the government should incentivise setting up of testing and infrastructure facilities in the country by private entities. These facilities should be accredited by the Telecom Engineering Centre.
“All telecom products meant for use in the telecommunication network or by consumer and marketed in the country should be classified as either fully finished imported products or indigenous products,” says the Trai.
“Indigenous products should be further classified into Made in India Products, Designed in India Products or Designed and Made in India Products.”
