By Star Chang, posted Jul 25, 2010 at 6:30 AM, 325 views,

India Will Lift Ban On Chinese Telecom Equipment

To avoid any delay of telecom projects, the Indian government agreed to allow the importation of telecommunications gear from China while at the same time implementing new security screening measures, effectively ending an unofficial ban on Chinese telecom vendors. Equipment from China will now have to be tested and certified by an international security agency before entering to India market, and India will also set up their own dedicated certification lab…

The Indian government will allow Indian mobile operators to implement authorizations for imported telecom equipment by themselves, acceptable with the guarantee of banks. Prior to this, some Indian telecom operators said that their expansion was impacted, due to the Indian government’s ban on Chinese telecom equipment for national security concerns. These operators said they prefer equipment made by Chinese makers, including Huawei and ZTE, because the prices of the equipment is often much more cheaper than those made by Western companies.

So some 25 Chinese telecom manufacturers should feel happy for this, no one really can reject Made-in-China. India and China are friends again.

Source: iFeng, China Tech News