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Indian Trade Bodies Lobby in Support of Huawei
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Two Indian trade bodies representing the mobile industry have started lobbying the government to reverse its decision to consider Huawei to be a foreign manufacturer for the purposes of awarding contracts.
It was recently revealed that Huawei has been left off a list compiled by the Indian government of telecoms equipment suppliers with local assembly plants. The government has encouraging the mobile networks to source more of their network infrastructure locally, and is formulating plans to make it mandatory in the future that a set percentage is manufactured in the country.
Being omitted from the list of companies with local factories will impact on the company's ability to bid for contracts.
Now the Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) and Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) have sent nearly identical letters to the Telecom Secretary R Chandrasekhar calling for the decision to be reviewed.
The letters have been sent to the security authorities for consideration, sources told the BusinessLine newspaper, suggesting that the omission was less about Huawei's local factories (or lack of), and the ongoing security concerns about the Chinese firm.
Huawei has an R&D centre in India which is its biggest outside China, employing around 2,000 people. In previous statements, the company had said that its India operations have been drawing overall investments of $150 million/year over the past decade and it has a total employee base of 6,000 people of which 95% are Indians, while creating indirect employment for 20,000 additional people through its partner programme.
On the web: BusinessLine
Tags: [huawei] [coai] [auspi] [India]
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