NEW DELHI: India's department of telecommunication (DoT) is likely to approach the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to resolve the deadlock over BSNL's 4G tender, Financial Express reported.
The state-run telco had previously said that tender may be delayed for more than a year if it is expected to meet all the conditions of the technical committee, and it said that it would also lead to a loss of subscribers. The telco had said it would incur revenue losses as well and asked to be suitably compensated for the same.
The telco has concerns over recommendations given by the DoT technical committee.
BSNL has reportedly said that it does not have the methodology to verify that the software version deployed in the field is the same that has been deposited in the escrow account.
BSNL also said that it does not have the competence or confidence on the subject of source code compilation with non-proprietary compilers, as per the report.
The DoT committee while recommending definition of Indian core, had mentioned that the company should be incorporated, registered and headquartered in India.
BSNL has said that it will be challenging to verify the “headquartered in India” clause as the same is not mentioned in certificate of registration.
It had also said having two separate cores would lead to formation of two different cores and will result into many challenges including adverse impact on quality of service to customers.
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The ailing telco recently attracted flak from the empowered technology group (ETG) headed by principal scientific advisor (PSA) K VijayRaghavan on its reluctance to use fourth-generation (4G) core network from domestic (desi) companies.
These development are being seen as a discouragement to BSNL's existing partners such as Finnish Nokia and Chinese ZTE who were the front runners to bid for the migration of as many as 49,300 existing 2G and 3G sites to 4G, as well as deploy 7,000 new sites for counterpart Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) in Delhi and Mumbai, ETTelecom had reported.
