In a communication to the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram, Minister of Home Affairs, the Indian Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA) raised the issue of the country?s telecom network collapsing during critical situations. This, TEMA said, was because of lack of government initiative.
According to the communication sent to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and to the Minister of Home Affair’s office, TEMA has said that the telecom sector is overly dependant on overseas companies for telecom infrastructure in the country.
The letter stated, “The United States of America too has similar concerns. They have taken the issue of large scale use of foreign-made equipment in their telecom networks seriously. We are in a much worse condition, as almost all the critical sub-systems of our nationwide telecom network have foreign equipment in it and we are not taking any concrete step in mitigating this potential threat which exists by promoting the use of indigenous equipments into the network.?
