China Seeks Level Playing Field from India on Barring Huawei and ZTE for 5G Trials

A recent report from China’s Global Times, the DoT had barred Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation from the list of companies which are allowed to work with local companies in 5G technology-based trials due to ‘security’ concerns. China, today expressed its disappointment over the report and sought “level playing field, transparent and fair environment” for its enterprises in India. The move by DoT follows the US and Australia in banning Huawei and ZTE for national security reasons. However, a top DoT official had said they were in the process of setting up a panel which will decide on areas where 5G technology can be used.

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Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan told PTI on September 14 that “companies have come up with preliminary use cases. We are going to set up core group which will sit with them and look at what are the use cases that make sense to us”. Sundararajan said DoT had approached Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Cisco and NEC for development of 5G applications and running trials on the suggestion of Stanford University Professor Emeritus Arogyaswami J Paulraj – a member of the 5G panel that recently suggested spectrum roadmap for the technology.

“We wrote to Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco, Samsung and NEC. Huawei has met me and they have said that they are interested. We said if you are interested then send us a proposal. We will see what their proposal is and we may go with them also,” she said.