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What is your contribution to the ambitious BharatNet<\/a> program?<\/b>
We have supplied GPON<\/a> (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) equipment against the BSNL and BBNL orders that we won in open tenders for BharatNet phase-I. We have completed our supplies within time and also successfully completed installation and commissioning as per schedule, for the sites that were allocated to us.
What are the challenges that still exist while accelerating efforts to deploy telecom infrastructure including fiberisation in the country?<\/b>
As a country, we have a lot of catch-ups to do in terms of fiberisation, since in India less than 25% cell towers have fiber connectivity as against 85% in China and 90% in the US. In addition, for the effective rollout of high-speed broadband, there is a need to take fiber to more than 250 million homes and enterprises. The new National Digital Communication Policy (NDCP) as well as the latest Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommendations have recognised this problem and suggested specific policy interventions to address right-of-way issues and infrastructure sharing. From a telco angle, they must increase the spending on optical networking infrastructure, since without this they won’t be able to address the exponentially increasing data demand.
How do you see the Preferential Market Access (PMA) policy? What the government should do to ensure Make in India?<\/b>
The PMA policy is a well-intended effort of the government to ensure Make-in-India. It recognizes the importance of ‘value-added manufacturing’ that can only be done when you do R&D and IPR creation in India, in addition to local assembly and manufacturing. However, the policy is not getting the desired impact since there are many implementation loopholes that need to be plugged. For instance, many PSU and state government-funded projects are still not implementing PMA policy and many tenders are floated with eligibility conditions that eliminate domestic players and favour MNC vendors. We have also seen that in some tenders for projects that have strategic significance, certain foreign companies (which are state-controlled) bid predatory prices to win the bids so that they can gain control of such strategic networks.
What are the steps required to create India a manufacturing hub for indigenous telecom equipment<\/a> as Trai has already sent out its views to the government? How will it ensure network security?<\/b>
Our country’s focus has to be clearly on design-led manufacturing, driven by product design, R&D and IPR creation. It is unrealistic to expect that global players will transfer their technology and critical IPR (for which they have spent billions of R&D dollars) to India and therefore they will mostly be involved in low-end assembly or manufacturing activities. In addition, telecom network security is a very serious issue for India, especially given the fact that we share borders with countries with whom we have had wars in the past. India is transforming into a digital economy and with the emergence of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, cybersecurity and secured network infrastructure is an absolutely critical need.
How can a country be self-reliant in such a competitive scenario led by technological advancement?<\/b>
As a leading economy in the world, we have no choice but to become self-reliant in critical telecom technologies, without which we are economically and security-wise exposed. The good news is that telecom products are increasingly becoming more dependent on software and R&D, areas which are India’s sweet-spot since we have a large pool of talented engineers in our country. We can use the advent of 5G, which will require new telecom infrastructure, and create a ‘national mission’ with a focus to become self-reliant in all key telecom technology areas. Since these rollouts are still 2-3 years away, with proper focus from industry and backed by government support, we can become a global telecom products hub. To begin with, if the government can act as a ‘buyer’ for such indigenous products and mandate that all projects of national importance shall only use indigenous products, we will not only create a market-pull and traction for domestic products but will also address our long-term cyber-security concerns.
Do you think private service providers are not keen to deploy homegrown networks or technologies?<\/b>
We can say that our optical transmission equipment is successfully deployed in all telecom networks in India. We have been selected against global players, because of our technology differentiators, competitive prices and world-class quality. We do face challenges when foreign players offer long-term financing (backed-by their country’s export-import banks) or when they cross-subsidise against us since they have a larger product portfolio. Today, Tejas has an end-to-end portfolio of optical networking products from megabits to terabits capacity (spanning technologies such as GPON, packet transport, and DWDM) that can fulfill all the transmission needs of operators in India. We have adequate manufacturing capacity and we can completely substitute the imports of optical transmission equipment in the country and save nearly a billion dollar of forex each year. Given this situation, the government can also support the domestic industry by providing incentives to private telcos to buy local equipment instead of importing.
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你的雄心勃勃的贡献是什么BharatNet项目?
我们已经提供GPON(千兆无源光网络)设备对BSNL和BBNL订单我们将在公开招标BharatNet大酒店。我们已经完成了我们的供应在时间和也成功完成安装和调试根据时间表,分配给我们的网站。
是什么仍然存在的挑战,而加速努力部署电信基础设施包括fiberisation国家吗?
作为一个国家,我们有很多新花样fiberisation而言,由于在印度不到25%发射塔纤维连接在中国仅为85%和90%。此外,对于高速宽带的有效推广,需要采取纤维超过2.5亿个家庭和企业。新的国家数字通信政策(NDCP)以及最新的印度电信管理局(火车)建议已经意识到了这个问题,提出具体的政策干预来解决优先权问题和基础设施共享。从电信的角度,他们必须提高光学网络基础设施支出,因为没有他们不能解决数据需求成倍增加。
你如何看待市场准入(PMA)优惠政策吗?政府应该做些什么来确保在印度吗?
政府的PMA政策是蓄谋已久的努力以确保Make-in-India。它认识到问题的重要性,“增值制造业”,只能当你做研发和创造知识产权在印度,除了当地组装和制造。然而,政策没有得到预期的效果,因为有很多实现漏洞需要填补。例如,许多事业单位和国家政府资助的项目还没有实施PMA政策和许多投标与资格条件,提出消除国内球员和支持跨国公司供应商。我们还看到,在一些投标项目的战略意义,某些外国公司(国有)掠夺性价格赢得竞标,这样他们就可以这样的战略网络的增益控制。
创建所需的步骤是什么印度本土的制造业中心吗电信设备火车已经派出其观点的政府?它将如何确保网络安全?
我国必须明确关注设计制造,由产品设计、研发和知识产权的创造。是不现实的期望,全球玩家会转移他们的技术和关键知识产权(他们已经花费了数十亿美元的研发)到印度,因此他们将主要参与低端组装或生产活动。此外,印度电信网络安全是一个非常严重的问题,特别是考虑到我们与国家与我们分享边界战争在过去。印度是变成数字经济,随着物联网的出现(物联网)和机器对机器(M2M)通信、网络安全、保护网络基础设施是一个至关重要的需求。
一个国家怎么能自力更生在这样一个竞争激烈的场景由科技进步?
作为一个世界主要经济体,我们别无选择,只能成为至关重要的电信技术的自力更生,没有我们经济和安明智暴露出来。好消息是,电信产品乐动扑克越来越变得越来越依赖于软件和研发、地区是印度的目的,因为我们有一个庞大的有才华的工程师。我们可以用5克的出现,这就需要新的电信基础设施,并创建一个“国家任务”的重点在所有关键电信技术领域成为自力更生。因为这些糊涂事仍有2 - 3年时间,通过适当的支持的重点从工业和政府的支持,我们可以成为全球电信产品中心。首先,如果政府可以作为“买家”这样的本土产品,要求所有国家重要性的项目应当只使用本地产品,我们不仅可以创建一个市场吸引力和牵引为国内产品也将解决我们长期网络安全问题。
你认为私人服务提供商并不热衷于部署国产网络还是技术?
我们可以说,光传输设备成功地部署在印度所有的电信网络。我们已经对全球玩家选择,因为我们的技术优势,具有竞争力的价格和一流的质量。我们面临挑战,当外国公司提供长期融资(由中国进出口银行)或当他们的钱去反对我们因为他们有一个更大的产品组合。今天,光辉的端到端光网络产品组合能力从m位(生成技术,如GPON、包运输和DWDM),可以满足所有在印度运营商的传输需求。我们有足够的生产能力,我们可以完全替代光传输设备的进口,每年节省近十亿美元的外汇。在这种情况下,政府也可以支持国内产业通过提供激励私人电信公司购买当地设备代替进口。
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