Airtel buys Rs.19,750 crore worth 5G equipments from Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung..

Airtel has signed agreement with Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung, for purchasing 5G equipments worth Rs.19,750 crore. At the same time, condition has been imposed on BSNL to purchase 4G equipments only from Indian companies. BSNL’s 4G launching is already delayed by 9 years. There is no Indian company with proven 4G technology.  TCS must have proved its 4G technology by 30th November, 2021, but it is not able to do it till date. Still, government is pressurising BSNL to purchase 4G equipments only from Indian companies. Why? Private companies are not being told to procure 5G equipments only from Indian company. Why? This is nothing but, a clear cut strategy of the government to further weaken BSNL and to ultimately hand it over to the private. It is time for all of us to tell the government to allow BSNL to procure equipments from global vendors, at par with the private telecom companies.

[ Source: Economic Times, dt. 04-08-2022 ]

[Date : 04 - Aug - 2022]