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Monday, the telco held a pre-bid conference to clear apprehensions of prospective bidders.The telecom carrier, in its notice said that the potential company must own or have unrestricted , irrevocable access and license to modify the source code and provide software support for all future versions, and added that the the source code for core as well as radio-access network should be deposited in Escrow account."They (foreign vendors) were also against any mandate of submitting source code in Escrow. In addition, they wanted interoperability agreement with local vendors as a pre-requisite for the potential bidders," the person aware of the matter said.The interoperability arrangement with BSNL's existing partners such as Finnish Nokia and Chinese ZTE, according to experts, may force local companies to take out exorbitant money to forge alliances for network integration and receiving data pattern information from them.One of the top executives of an Indian company who do not wanted to be … [Read more...] about BSNL 4G: Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE spar with homegrown companies

“5G standalone is going to be the real game-changer for 5G. With Nokia’s 5G standalone Core integrated into our 5G network, we are well-positioned to harness the endless possibilities that 5G standalone can bring about,” said Manjot Singh Mann, Chief Executive Officer, M1. “With Nokia 5G standalone Core, we are pleased to be expanding our long-standing partnership with M1, enabling Singapore’s transformation to 5G by providing a host of new capabilities.. In addition, we are excited and looking forward to developing and testing pioneering industrial use cases together with M1 and industry leaders in Singapore,” said Raghav Sahgal, President of Cloud and Network Services at Nokia. … [Read more...] about Nokia partners Singaporean telco M1 to launch Core 5G SA services

NO DISRUPTIONA senior executive at one of the top private telcos said that the move was expected and not disruptive.“It was expected, all the signals were there. But it’s not a disruption as the government has been very sensible to make this only for future investments. Existing equipment won’t get uprooted, software upgrades are allowed, AMCs continue,” the executive said.He added that while without Huawei and ZTE, it would still be a competitive market, it would lead to some cost pressures due to a lesser number of vendors. “But we’ll have to work around this…it will be a question of negotiations.” Airtel has already started replacing Huawei's equipment in some circles with European vendors such as Ericsson at the time of contract renewals.Ram Narain, former senior DDG (security) at the telecom department, said the list of trusted sources/products would likely be drawn up on the basis of inputs from intelligence agencies linked to … [Read more...] about New controls on sourcing telecoms gear may impact Chinese vendors

Sandhu said that PertSol is the major third-party solution provider to BSNL under phase 8. “Around 80-85% of the business came to us through Nokia and ZTE. We deployed our security, compliance, remote access, IP log and fraud management, and location-based services for BSNL’s pan-Indian network. We were also the first company to successfully deploy lawful interception in India.”Earlier this month, the state-owned service provider further had sought proposals through the Expression of Interest (EoI) for prior registration for proof-of-concept (PoC) from the Indian companies showing interest to participate in the bidding process.BSNL, however, had raised concerns over the DoT’s recommendation to use only local equipment for the 4G core network. It said that the indigenous core technology and equipment was unproven and will increase the overall deployment cost.BSNL had also said that having two different cores for its network – one for existing 2G and 3G and … [Read more...] about BSNL tender: The curious case of indigenous 4G core…and Mavenir