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Homegrown companies' access to the country's vast domestic market remains chaotic as the homegrown industry blames absence of a level-playing field. Nonetheless, the localised telecom firms need to rekindle trust and demonstrate technology proveness to the industry, particularly the private sector and state-owned entities.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia and its Swedish counterpart Ericsson<\/a> command a lion's share of close to 95% in the Indian telecom gear market following the fall of Chinese Huawei and ZTE. This, however, is set to change, albeit not drastically, if homegrown companies make the right move on the back of the government's initiatives.
Following enabling policies unveiled in the last few years, can an Indian entity come out as strong as Chinese Huawei or Finnish Nokia to dominate markets worldwide? Arguably, no
This is no cakewalk, say analysts, adding that a strategy to boost local manufacturing capabilities is not new but it's high time to move from rhetoric to a reality by providing a desired impetus to the local ecosystem.
Chinese Huawei has lost some ground outside of China. But, despite that, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei were the top 3 suppliers outside of China in 2022, and account for close to 20%, 18%, and 18% of the market, respectively, according to the US-based Dell'Oro group.
India, now in a fifth generation or 5G technology league, is set to further up spend on network gear in FY 2023 and 2024.
Lack of market access<\/strong>
The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (Tepc), however, argues that there is 'no question of distrust' or the product not being ‘fit for purpose’ for domestically-developed offerings, and added that products meet the international standards and features.
Delhi-based Tepc represents nearly 100 homegrown companies.
\"Dominating the local market is a big first step. Many successful global product companies have invariably gone through such an evolution,\" NG Subramaniam, chairman of Tepc said, adding that the ambitious ‘Make in India’ scheme promotes procurement in the departments and organisations led by the Central government but does not provide access in states, and non-government telecom operators and system integrators
Domestic companies blame that lack of access in public sector companies both at central and state levels make it tougher for them to sustain, and had earlier even demanded that the scope of preferred market access (PMA) should be extended to private sector players.
This (lack of access) restricts the market available to domestic R&D and product developers, who need such a backing, which otherwise eventually create local manufacturing ecosystems and meet the market needs besides export opportunities, according to him.
Subramaniam further said that more than a mandate, it would be good to prioritise equivalent domestic product consumption by various entities so that they may play a part in maturing the product and the ecosystem.
Citing Chinese Huawei, a telecom industry veteran said that this is a high time for the government to handhold at least a few locally-relevant companies so that at least a single company can emerge as a stronger alternative to telecom gear demand worldwide.
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.
The Chinese company holds highest patents both in 5G and 6G technologies today.
Taking a multi-pronged approach is the only way out to empower local telecom firms to grow at a global scale.
Following a long-standing demand, the telecom department (DoT) has finally come out with a policy to complement Make in India ambition and facilitate localised Intellectual Proprietary Rights (IPR) by way of supporting research and development (R&D) initiatives of local companies. The department has earmarked 5% of the Universal Service Obligation Fund<\/a> (USOF) towards such initiatives by homegrown companies.
USOF is about Rs 55,000-crore strong state corpus to fund digital connectivity in rural and remote areas in which telecom operators -- Reliance Jio<\/a>, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- contribute 5% of the adjusted gross revenue.
On the flip side, Indian-origin companies too need to work in close coordination and proof of concepts with private entities to demonstrate technological agility and reliability.
But Subramaniam argues that there is no question of distrust of domestically developed products or the product not being ‘fit for purpose, saying that products meet the international standards and features, and they go through the rigor of testing and certification, so quality will be comparable and competitive.
\"The domestic companies also have their task cut out to tap into the opportunity, especially in the current environment of encouragement offered by the government and enterprises alike,\" Subramaniam added.
Ecosystem needs upswing<\/strong>
The Cellular Operators Association of India<\/a> (Coai<\/a>) that represents private sector companies including telecom carriers and multinationals such as Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper differs with homegrown industry.
\"The (local) ecosystem needs to develop considerably for India to be able to produce globally competitive telecom equipment, while ensuring at the same time, that the nation’s technological progress is not compromised owing to sub-standard products put to use in the essential telecom infrastructure,\" SP Kochhar, director general, COAI said.
Further, he attributes lack of requisite skill sets as one of the biggest challenges India faces for effective telecom equipment manufacturing.
Since the local telecom gear manufacturing ecosystem in India is still in its development phase, Kochhar said that mandating the deployment of locally-made telecom gear may result in creating disruptions in the services and 5G rollout in the country.
\"In fact, more than 90% of the telecom equipment in India is presently imported due to the lack of the necessary manufacturing facilities.\"
Meanwhile, local telecom firms particularly vendors offering wireless and wired data products such as Wi-Fi access points, controllers, switches blame that buying platforms such as the GeM or government e-marketplace favour multinationals by making conditions such as certification stringent, discouraging level-playing field.
RK Bhatnagar, director general, Voice of Indian Commtech Enterprises (Voice) said that public sector entities across ministries and private telcos should be motivated and encouraged to buy and deploy locally made gear going forward in line with National Digital Communication Policy 2018, and concessions to their USOF contributions can be provided by the government.
But the Delhi-based telco group, on the contrary, believes that it would not be desirable to compromise the quality of the networks by imposing mandates, and the Preferential Market Access (PMA) regime under these circumstances would lead to an unprecedented intrusion.
Further Kochhar feels that an incentivised approach to domestic manufacturing, as envisaged by the government presently, would be a more prudent way to encourage the development of domestic R&D, IPR creation and manufacturing in India of global standards, to not only meet the country’s needs, but also in line with national objective to become a global manufacturing, R&D and supply chain hub.
Gap between telecom imports and exports need to be bridged so as to increase share of Indian companies, argued Bhatnagar.
Meanwhile, the Indian government is keen on offering support on the entire range of sophisticated made-in-India 4G and 5G equipment, and associated technologies to other nations as a part of its commitment during the G20 discussions on the digital economy.
Recently, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India would offer next generation (5G) technology and India's application programming interface (API) stack to other countries, following the indigenously designed and development 5G core, a backbone that offers a reliable connectivity to the radio access network, by the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
In addition, the state-controlled firm is also working closely with a few Indian companies and startups to bring radio access networks to the market. But, the lack of ecosystem readiness has apparently further dragged the ambition.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, on the other hand, is also looking to deploy homegrown 5G core and radio network, as a part of its roadmap.
Read also<\/h4><\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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深入:印度的Atmanirbhar追求:从修辞到现实
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚及瑞典的爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
新德里:印度的雄心勃勃的计划,自力更生在电信设备领域,支持根据激励机制和电信技术发展基金,可能会承担水果但是是否可以使印度巨头华为或相似诺基亚,似乎是一个遥远的现实。
本土企业进入中国庞大的国内市场仍然是混乱的本土产业归咎于缺乏一个公平的环境。然而,局部的电信公司需要重新信任和演示技术proveness行业,尤其是私营企业和国有企业。
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚和瑞典外长爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
后使政策公布了在过去的几年里,印度实体可以出来的中国华为或芬兰诺基亚全球主导市场吗?可以说,没有
这不是轻而易举的事,分析师们表示,一个策略来提高当地制造能力不是新的而是是时候从修辞学转向现实当地生态系统通过提供所需的动力。
中国华为已经失去了一些中国以外的地面。但是,尽管如此,诺基亚、爱立信和华为三大供应商是中国以外的2022年,占近20%,18%,和18%的市场份额,分别根据美国Dell ' oro集团。
印度,现在在五分之一一代或5 g技术联盟,将继续在网络设备上花在2023和2024财政年度。
缺乏市场准入
电信设备和服务出口促进委员会(Tepc),然而,认为“毫无疑问的不信任”或产品不“适用”本土开发的产品,并补充说,产品符合国际标准和特性。
德里Tepc代表近100家本土企业。
“垄断国内市场是一个大的第一步。许多成功的全球产品企业总是经历了这样的发展,”Tepc董事长NG苏说,雄心勃勃的在印度的计划促进采购部门和组织领导的中央政府,但不提供访问,和非政府电信运营商和系统集成商
国内企业责任,缺乏公共部门企业都在中央和国家水平使他们更难维持,甚至早前要求首选市场准入的范围(PMA)应该扩展到私营部门的球员。
这(缺乏)限制了市场对国内研发和产品开发人员可用,需要这样的支持,否则最终创建本地制造业生态系统和满足市场需求除了出口机会,据他。
苏进一步表示,超过授权,要优先考虑国内生产总值相当于消耗各种实体,这样他们可以参与成熟产品和生态系统。
引用中国华为电信行业资深人士表示,这是政府高次握住几适宜当地的公司,这样至少一家公司可以成为强有力的替代,全球电信设备需求。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
这家中国公司持有最高专利在今天5 g和6 g技术。
“我们有一些证明公司在印度部署网络以及海外尽管数量有限。扩展支持他们即使在约束的方式将有助于加速增长和提交进一步投资,“Tepc高管补充道。
采取多管齐下的方法是唯一的出路,让当地的电信公司在全球范围内增长。
后长期需求,电信部门(点)终于在印度推出政策的补充使野心和促进局部知识专有权利(IPR)通过支持研究和开发(研发)当地公司的举措。部门拨款的5%普遍服务义务基金(USOF)对这类项目的本土公司。
USOF大约价值55000卢比的强大的国家语料库为数字连接在农村和偏远地区电信运营商—依赖JioBharti Airtel和沃达丰的想法,提供调整后的总营收的5%。
另一方面,印度企业也需要密切协调和工作证明概念与私人实体展示技术的灵活性和可靠性。
但苏认为毫无疑问的不信任的自主研发的产品或产品不适用,说产品满足国际标准和特性,并经过严格的测试和认证,所以质量会比较和竞争。
“国内企业也有他们的任务减少利用机会,特别是在当前环境下提供的鼓励政府和企业一样,”苏说。
生态系统的需求上升
的印度手机运营商协会(Coai),代表私营企业包括电信运营商和跨国公司如诺基亚、爱立信、思科和Juniper与本土行业不同。
“(当地)生态系统需要开发印度大大能够生产具有全球竞争力的电信设备,同时确保与此同时,这个国家的技术进步不是妥协由于劣质产品在必要的电信基础设施投入使用,“SP Kochhar,总经理,COAI说。
进一步,他缺乏必要的技能属性是印度面临的最大挑战之一,有效的电信设备制造业。
由于当地电信设备制造业生态系统在印度仍处于发展阶段,Kochhar说,要求当地电信设备的部署可能导致创建中断服务和5克推出。
“事实上,超过90%的印度的电信设备目前由于缺少必要的进口生产设备。”
与此同时,当地电信公司尤其是供应商提供有线和无线数据产品,如wi - fi接入点,控制器,开关指责,购买平台如宝石或政府支持跨国公司通过电子交易市场等条件认证严格,阻碍公平的领域。
RK博、总干事、语音的印度Commtech企业(声音)说,公共部门实体跨部门和私营电信公司应该积极和鼓励购买和部署未来国产装置符合国家数字通信政策2018年和让步USOF贡献可以由政府提供。
但德里电信集团,相反,认为不需要妥协的质量实施授权的网络,和优惠的市场准入(PMA)政权在这种情况下会导致前所未有的入侵。
进一步Kochhar觉得国内制造业的激励方法,目前由政府设想,将是一个更谨慎的方式来鼓励发展国内研发、知识产权创造和制造在印度的全球标准,不仅要满足国家的需要,也符合国家目标成为全球制造、研发和供应链中心。
电信进出口需要弥合差距,增加印度公司的份额,认为博。
与此同时,印度政府正热衷于提供支持在整个范围的复杂的在印度4 g和5 g设备和相关技术向其他国家作为其承诺的一部分在G20讨论数字经济。
最近,通讯部长Ashwini Vaishnaw说,印度将提供下一代(5克)技术和印度的应用程序编程接口(API)堆栈到其他国家,自主设计和开发5 g核心后,骨干,提供了一个可靠的连接到无线接入网络,由国营远程信息技术开发中心(C-DoT)。
此外,国有控股公司还与一些印度公司和初创公司密切合作,使无线电接入网络市场。但是,缺乏生态系统准备显然进一步拖的野心。
亿万富翁穆克什Ambani-owned Jio的依赖,另一方面,也希望部署国产5 g核心和无线网络,作为一个路线图的一部分。
读也
印度的视力缺失的牙齿
渴望成为精英俱乐部的成员,印度,但是,需要做更多的工作,包括面向任务的支持一批本土企业。
塔塔咨询服务公司(TCS)简况光辉网络设置部署国产core-backed 4 g网络,升级到5 g,国有Bharat Sanchar Nigam说有限(BSNL)可能是一个案例研究对于许多发展中亚洲和非洲国家。财团,然而两年多达到现阶段。
“目前跨国公司享受一大派在印度市场大部分的授权服务提供商和他们下订单。然而,至少从4 g,印度公司的市场份额将会显著增加。”
在6克,印度应该早期领导人之一与印度公司拥有超过125项专利,爱好者说。但是即使这是一个极小的份额作为全球超过40000项专利已经提交。
Atmanirbhar巴拉特(自力更生)是一个明智之举。需要一个全面的方法,”博士室Sandeep Agarwal说,零进口或国产外国产品可能无法完全避免,但它可能是更好的如果一个国家购买授权的一部分来自自主设计,开发和制造(IDDM)产品。
“印度将成为完全Atmanirbhar但我们需要最初的牵手,并设计和开发需要摊余成本。”
少量、开发成本和高资本和利率最终导致新公司没有雄厚的消亡之前,他们变得富有竞争力,阿加沃说。
4 g和5 g国内生态系统越来越强,和更大的参与在多边论坛包括国际电信联盟(ITU),印度公司,所需的政策支持,将中心舞台。时间是现在!
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI: India's ambitious initiative for self-reliance in the telecom equipment domain, backed by production-linked incentive scheme and telecom technology development fund, is likely to bear fruits but whether that can enable an Indian behemoth akin to Huawei or Nokia<\/a>, seems to be a far off reality.
Homegrown companies' access to the country's vast domestic market remains chaotic as the homegrown industry blames absence of a level-playing field. Nonetheless, the localised telecom firms need to rekindle trust and demonstrate technology proveness to the industry, particularly the private sector and state-owned entities.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia and its Swedish counterpart Ericsson<\/a> command a lion's share of close to 95% in the Indian telecom gear market following the fall of Chinese Huawei and ZTE. This, however, is set to change, albeit not drastically, if homegrown companies make the right move on the back of the government's initiatives.
Following enabling policies unveiled in the last few years, can an Indian entity come out as strong as Chinese Huawei or Finnish Nokia to dominate markets worldwide? Arguably, no
This is no cakewalk, say analysts, adding that a strategy to boost local manufacturing capabilities is not new but it's high time to move from rhetoric to a reality by providing a desired impetus to the local ecosystem.
Chinese Huawei has lost some ground outside of China. But, despite that, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei were the top 3 suppliers outside of China in 2022, and account for close to 20%, 18%, and 18% of the market, respectively, according to the US-based Dell'Oro group.
India, now in a fifth generation or 5G technology league, is set to further up spend on network gear in FY 2023 and 2024.
Lack of market access<\/strong>
The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (Tepc), however, argues that there is 'no question of distrust' or the product not being ‘fit for purpose’ for domestically-developed offerings, and added that products meet the international standards and features.
Delhi-based Tepc represents nearly 100 homegrown companies.
\"Dominating the local market is a big first step. Many successful global product companies have invariably gone through such an evolution,\" NG Subramaniam, chairman of Tepc said, adding that the ambitious ‘Make in India’ scheme promotes procurement in the departments and organisations led by the Central government but does not provide access in states, and non-government telecom operators and system integrators
Domestic companies blame that lack of access in public sector companies both at central and state levels make it tougher for them to sustain, and had earlier even demanded that the scope of preferred market access (PMA) should be extended to private sector players.
This (lack of access) restricts the market available to domestic R&D and product developers, who need such a backing, which otherwise eventually create local manufacturing ecosystems and meet the market needs besides export opportunities, according to him.
Subramaniam further said that more than a mandate, it would be good to prioritise equivalent domestic product consumption by various entities so that they may play a part in maturing the product and the ecosystem.
Citing Chinese Huawei, a telecom industry veteran said that this is a high time for the government to handhold at least a few locally-relevant companies so that at least a single company can emerge as a stronger alternative to telecom gear demand worldwide.
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.
The Chinese company holds highest patents both in 5G and 6G technologies today.
<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\"We have a few proven companies who have deployed network in India as well as overseas albeit in limited volumes. Extending support to them even in a constrained manner would help accelerate their growth and commit further investments,\" Tepc's top executive added.
Taking a multi-pronged approach is the only way out to empower local telecom firms to grow at a global scale.
Following a long-standing demand, the telecom department (DoT) has finally come out with a policy to complement Make in India ambition and facilitate localised Intellectual Proprietary Rights (IPR) by way of supporting research and development (R&D) initiatives of local companies. The department has earmarked 5% of the Universal Service Obligation Fund<\/a> (USOF) towards such initiatives by homegrown companies.
USOF is about Rs 55,000-crore strong state corpus to fund digital connectivity in rural and remote areas in which telecom operators -- Reliance Jio<\/a>, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- contribute 5% of the adjusted gross revenue.
On the flip side, Indian-origin companies too need to work in close coordination and proof of concepts with private entities to demonstrate technological agility and reliability.
But Subramaniam argues that there is no question of distrust of domestically developed products or the product not being ‘fit for purpose, saying that products meet the international standards and features, and they go through the rigor of testing and certification, so quality will be comparable and competitive.
\"The domestic companies also have their task cut out to tap into the opportunity, especially in the current environment of encouragement offered by the government and enterprises alike,\" Subramaniam added.
Ecosystem needs upswing<\/strong>
The Cellular Operators Association of India<\/a> (Coai<\/a>) that represents private sector companies including telecom carriers and multinationals such as Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper differs with homegrown industry.
\"The (local) ecosystem needs to develop considerably for India to be able to produce globally competitive telecom equipment, while ensuring at the same time, that the nation’s technological progress is not compromised owing to sub-standard products put to use in the essential telecom infrastructure,\" SP Kochhar, director general, COAI said.
Further, he attributes lack of requisite skill sets as one of the biggest challenges India faces for effective telecom equipment manufacturing.
Since the local telecom gear manufacturing ecosystem in India is still in its development phase, Kochhar said that mandating the deployment of locally-made telecom gear may result in creating disruptions in the services and 5G rollout in the country.
\"In fact, more than 90% of the telecom equipment in India is presently imported due to the lack of the necessary manufacturing facilities.\"
Meanwhile, local telecom firms particularly vendors offering wireless and wired data products such as Wi-Fi access points, controllers, switches blame that buying platforms such as the GeM or government e-marketplace favour multinationals by making conditions such as certification stringent, discouraging level-playing field.
RK Bhatnagar, director general, Voice of Indian Commtech Enterprises (Voice) said that public sector entities across ministries and private telcos should be motivated and encouraged to buy and deploy locally made gear going forward in line with National Digital Communication Policy 2018, and concessions to their USOF contributions can be provided by the government.
But the Delhi-based telco group, on the contrary, believes that it would not be desirable to compromise the quality of the networks by imposing mandates, and the Preferential Market Access (PMA) regime under these circumstances would lead to an unprecedented intrusion.
Further Kochhar feels that an incentivised approach to domestic manufacturing, as envisaged by the government presently, would be a more prudent way to encourage the development of domestic R&D, IPR creation and manufacturing in India of global standards, to not only meet the country’s needs, but also in line with national objective to become a global manufacturing, R&D and supply chain hub.
Gap between telecom imports and exports need to be bridged so as to increase share of Indian companies, argued Bhatnagar.
Meanwhile, the Indian government is keen on offering support on the entire range of sophisticated made-in-India 4G and 5G equipment, and associated technologies to other nations as a part of its commitment during the G20 discussions on the digital economy.
Recently, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India would offer next generation (5G) technology and India's application programming interface (API) stack to other countries, following the indigenously designed and development 5G core, a backbone that offers a reliable connectivity to the radio access network, by the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
In addition, the state-controlled firm is also working closely with a few Indian companies and startups to bring radio access networks to the market. But, the lack of ecosystem readiness has apparently further dragged the ambition.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, on the other hand, is also looking to deploy homegrown 5G core and radio network, as a part of its roadmap.
Read also<\/h4><\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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<\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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深入:印度的Atmanirbhar追求:从修辞到现实
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚及瑞典的爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
新德里:印度的雄心勃勃的计划,自力更生在电信设备领域,支持根据激励机制和电信技术发展基金,可能会承担水果但是是否可以使印度巨头华为或相似诺基亚,似乎是一个遥远的现实。
本土企业进入中国庞大的国内市场仍然是混乱的本土产业归咎于缺乏一个公平的环境。然而,局部的电信公司需要重新信任和演示技术proveness行业,尤其是私营企业和国有企业。
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚和瑞典外长爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
后使政策公布了在过去的几年里,印度实体可以出来的中国华为或芬兰诺基亚全球主导市场吗?可以说,没有
这不是轻而易举的事,分析师们表示,一个策略来提高当地制造能力不是新的而是是时候从修辞学转向现实当地生态系统通过提供所需的动力。
中国华为已经失去了一些中国以外的地面。但是,尽管如此,诺基亚、爱立信和华为三大供应商是中国以外的2022年,占近20%,18%,和18%的市场份额,分别根据美国Dell ' oro集团。
印度,现在在五分之一一代或5 g技术联盟,将继续在网络设备上花在2023和2024财政年度。
缺乏市场准入
电信设备和服务出口促进委员会(Tepc),然而,认为“毫无疑问的不信任”或产品不“适用”本土开发的产品,并补充说,产品符合国际标准和特性。
德里Tepc代表近100家本土企业。
“垄断国内市场是一个大的第一步。许多成功的全球产品企业总是经历了这样的发展,”Tepc董事长NG苏说,雄心勃勃的在印度的计划促进采购部门和组织领导的中央政府,但不提供访问,和非政府电信运营商和系统集成商
国内企业责任,缺乏公共部门企业都在中央和国家水平使他们更难维持,甚至早前要求首选市场准入的范围(PMA)应该扩展到私营部门的球员。
这(缺乏)限制了市场对国内研发和产品开发人员可用,需要这样的支持,否则最终创建本地制造业生态系统和满足市场需求除了出口机会,据他。
苏进一步表示,超过授权,要优先考虑国内生产总值相当于消耗各种实体,这样他们可以参与成熟产品和生态系统。
引用中国华为电信行业资深人士表示,这是政府高次握住几适宜当地的公司,这样至少一家公司可以成为强有力的替代,全球电信设备需求。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
这家中国公司持有最高专利在今天5 g和6 g技术。
“我们有一些证明公司在印度部署网络以及海外尽管数量有限。扩展支持他们即使在约束的方式将有助于加速增长和提交进一步投资,“Tepc高管补充道。
采取多管齐下的方法是唯一的出路,让当地的电信公司在全球范围内增长。
后长期需求,电信部门(点)终于在印度推出政策的补充使野心和促进局部知识专有权利(IPR)通过支持研究和开发(研发)当地公司的举措。部门拨款的5%普遍服务义务基金(USOF)对这类项目的本土公司。
USOF大约价值55000卢比的强大的国家语料库为数字连接在农村和偏远地区电信运营商—依赖JioBharti Airtel和沃达丰的想法,提供调整后的总营收的5%。
另一方面,印度企业也需要密切协调和工作证明概念与私人实体展示技术的灵活性和可靠性。
但苏认为毫无疑问的不信任的自主研发的产品或产品不适用,说产品满足国际标准和特性,并经过严格的测试和认证,所以质量会比较和竞争。
“国内企业也有他们的任务减少利用机会,特别是在当前环境下提供的鼓励政府和企业一样,”苏说。
生态系统的需求上升
的印度手机运营商协会(Coai),代表私营企业包括电信运营商和跨国公司如诺基亚、爱立信、思科和Juniper与本土行业不同。
“(当地)生态系统需要开发印度大大能够生产具有全球竞争力的电信设备,同时确保与此同时,这个国家的技术进步不是妥协由于劣质产品在必要的电信基础设施投入使用,“SP Kochhar,总经理,COAI说。
进一步,他缺乏必要的技能属性是印度面临的最大挑战之一,有效的电信设备制造业。
由于当地电信设备制造业生态系统在印度仍处于发展阶段,Kochhar说,要求当地电信设备的部署可能导致创建中断服务和5克推出。
“事实上,超过90%的印度的电信设备目前由于缺少必要的进口生产设备。”
与此同时,当地电信公司尤其是供应商提供有线和无线数据产品,如wi - fi接入点,控制器,开关指责,购买平台如宝石或政府支持跨国公司通过电子交易市场等条件认证严格,阻碍公平的领域。
RK博、总干事、语音的印度Commtech企业(声音)说,公共部门实体跨部门和私营电信公司应该积极和鼓励购买和部署未来国产装置符合国家数字通信政策2018年和让步USOF贡献可以由政府提供。
但德里电信集团,相反,认为不需要妥协的质量实施授权的网络,和优惠的市场准入(PMA)政权在这种情况下会导致前所未有的入侵。
进一步Kochhar觉得国内制造业的激励方法,目前由政府设想,将是一个更谨慎的方式来鼓励发展国内研发、知识产权创造和制造在印度的全球标准,不仅要满足国家的需要,也符合国家目标成为全球制造、研发和供应链中心。
电信进出口需要弥合差距,增加印度公司的份额,认为博。
与此同时,印度政府正热衷于提供支持在整个范围的复杂的在印度4 g和5 g设备和相关技术向其他国家作为其承诺的一部分在G20讨论数字经济。
最近,通讯部长Ashwini Vaishnaw说,印度将提供下一代(5克)技术和印度的应用程序编程接口(API)堆栈到其他国家,自主设计和开发5 g核心后,骨干,提供了一个可靠的连接到无线接入网络,由国营远程信息技术开发中心(C-DoT)。
此外,国有控股公司还与一些印度公司和初创公司密切合作,使无线电接入网络市场。但是,缺乏生态系统准备显然进一步拖的野心。
亿万富翁穆克什Ambani-owned Jio的依赖,另一方面,也希望部署国产5 g核心和无线网络,作为一个路线图的一部分。
读也
印度的视力缺失的牙齿
渴望成为精英俱乐部的成员,印度,但是,需要做更多的工作,包括面向任务的支持一批本土企业。
塔塔咨询服务公司(TCS)简况光辉网络设置部署国产core-backed 4 g网络,升级到5 g,国有Bharat Sanchar Nigam说有限(BSNL)可能是一个案例研究对于许多发展中亚洲和非洲国家。财团,然而两年多达到现阶段。
“目前跨国公司享受一大派在印度市场大部分的授权服务提供商和他们下订单。然而,至少从4 g,印度公司的市场份额将会显著增加。”
在6克,印度应该早期领导人之一与印度公司拥有超过125项专利,爱好者说。但是即使这是一个极小的份额作为全球超过40000项专利已经提交。
Atmanirbhar巴拉特(自力更生)是一个明智之举。需要一个全面的方法,”博士室Sandeep Agarwal说,零进口或国产外国产品可能无法完全避免,但它可能是更好的如果一个国家购买授权的一部分来自自主设计,开发和制造(IDDM)产品。
“印度将成为完全Atmanirbhar但我们需要最初的牵手,并设计和开发需要摊余成本。”
少量、开发成本和高资本和利率最终导致新公司没有雄厚的消亡之前,他们变得富有竞争力,阿加沃说。
4 g和5 g国内生态系统越来越强,和更大的参与在多边论坛包括国际电信联盟(ITU),印度公司,所需的政策支持,将中心舞台。时间是现在!
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI: India's ambitious initiative for self-reliance in the telecom equipment domain, backed by production-linked incentive scheme and telecom technology development fund, is likely to bear fruits but whether that can enable an Indian behemoth akin to Huawei or Nokia<\/a>, seems to be a far off reality.
Homegrown companies' access to the country's vast domestic market remains chaotic as the homegrown industry blames absence of a level-playing field. Nonetheless, the localised telecom firms need to rekindle trust and demonstrate technology proveness to the industry, particularly the private sector and state-owned entities.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia and its Swedish counterpart Ericsson<\/a> command a lion's share of close to 95% in the Indian telecom gear market following the fall of Chinese Huawei and ZTE. This, however, is set to change, albeit not drastically, if homegrown companies make the right move on the back of the government's initiatives.
Following enabling policies unveiled in the last few years, can an Indian entity come out as strong as Chinese Huawei or Finnish Nokia to dominate markets worldwide? Arguably, no
This is no cakewalk, say analysts, adding that a strategy to boost local manufacturing capabilities is not new but it's high time to move from rhetoric to a reality by providing a desired impetus to the local ecosystem.
Chinese Huawei has lost some ground outside of China. But, despite that, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei were the top 3 suppliers outside of China in 2022, and account for close to 20%, 18%, and 18% of the market, respectively, according to the US-based Dell'Oro group.
India, now in a fifth generation or 5G technology league, is set to further up spend on network gear in FY 2023 and 2024.
Lack of market access<\/strong>
The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (Tepc), however, argues that there is 'no question of distrust' or the product not being ‘fit for purpose’ for domestically-developed offerings, and added that products meet the international standards and features.
Delhi-based Tepc represents nearly 100 homegrown companies.
\"Dominating the local market is a big first step. Many successful global product companies have invariably gone through such an evolution,\" NG Subramaniam, chairman of Tepc said, adding that the ambitious ‘Make in India’ scheme promotes procurement in the departments and organisations led by the Central government but does not provide access in states, and non-government telecom operators and system integrators
Domestic companies blame that lack of access in public sector companies both at central and state levels make it tougher for them to sustain, and had earlier even demanded that the scope of preferred market access (PMA) should be extended to private sector players.
This (lack of access) restricts the market available to domestic R&D and product developers, who need such a backing, which otherwise eventually create local manufacturing ecosystems and meet the market needs besides export opportunities, according to him.
Subramaniam further said that more than a mandate, it would be good to prioritise equivalent domestic product consumption by various entities so that they may play a part in maturing the product and the ecosystem.
Citing Chinese Huawei, a telecom industry veteran said that this is a high time for the government to handhold at least a few locally-relevant companies so that at least a single company can emerge as a stronger alternative to telecom gear demand worldwide.
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.
The Chinese company holds highest patents both in 5G and 6G technologies today.
<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\"We have a few proven companies who have deployed network in India as well as overseas albeit in limited volumes. Extending support to them even in a constrained manner would help accelerate their growth and commit further investments,\" Tepc's top executive added.
Taking a multi-pronged approach is the only way out to empower local telecom firms to grow at a global scale.
Following a long-standing demand, the telecom department (DoT) has finally come out with a policy to complement Make in India ambition and facilitate localised Intellectual Proprietary Rights (IPR) by way of supporting research and development (R&D) initiatives of local companies. The department has earmarked 5% of the Universal Service Obligation Fund<\/a> (USOF) towards such initiatives by homegrown companies.
USOF is about Rs 55,000-crore strong state corpus to fund digital connectivity in rural and remote areas in which telecom operators -- Reliance Jio<\/a>, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- contribute 5% of the adjusted gross revenue.
On the flip side, Indian-origin companies too need to work in close coordination and proof of concepts with private entities to demonstrate technological agility and reliability.
But Subramaniam argues that there is no question of distrust of domestically developed products or the product not being ‘fit for purpose, saying that products meet the international standards and features, and they go through the rigor of testing and certification, so quality will be comparable and competitive.
\"The domestic companies also have their task cut out to tap into the opportunity, especially in the current environment of encouragement offered by the government and enterprises alike,\" Subramaniam added.
Ecosystem needs upswing<\/strong>
The Cellular Operators Association of India<\/a> (Coai<\/a>) that represents private sector companies including telecom carriers and multinationals such as Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper differs with homegrown industry.
\"The (local) ecosystem needs to develop considerably for India to be able to produce globally competitive telecom equipment, while ensuring at the same time, that the nation’s technological progress is not compromised owing to sub-standard products put to use in the essential telecom infrastructure,\" SP Kochhar, director general, COAI said.
Further, he attributes lack of requisite skill sets as one of the biggest challenges India faces for effective telecom equipment manufacturing.
Since the local telecom gear manufacturing ecosystem in India is still in its development phase, Kochhar said that mandating the deployment of locally-made telecom gear may result in creating disruptions in the services and 5G rollout in the country.
\"In fact, more than 90% of the telecom equipment in India is presently imported due to the lack of the necessary manufacturing facilities.\"
Meanwhile, local telecom firms particularly vendors offering wireless and wired data products such as Wi-Fi access points, controllers, switches blame that buying platforms such as the GeM or government e-marketplace favour multinationals by making conditions such as certification stringent, discouraging level-playing field.
RK Bhatnagar, director general, Voice of Indian Commtech Enterprises (Voice) said that public sector entities across ministries and private telcos should be motivated and encouraged to buy and deploy locally made gear going forward in line with National Digital Communication Policy 2018, and concessions to their USOF contributions can be provided by the government.
But the Delhi-based telco group, on the contrary, believes that it would not be desirable to compromise the quality of the networks by imposing mandates, and the Preferential Market Access (PMA) regime under these circumstances would lead to an unprecedented intrusion.
Further Kochhar feels that an incentivised approach to domestic manufacturing, as envisaged by the government presently, would be a more prudent way to encourage the development of domestic R&D, IPR creation and manufacturing in India of global standards, to not only meet the country’s needs, but also in line with national objective to become a global manufacturing, R&D and supply chain hub.
Gap between telecom imports and exports need to be bridged so as to increase share of Indian companies, argued Bhatnagar.
Meanwhile, the Indian government is keen on offering support on the entire range of sophisticated made-in-India 4G and 5G equipment, and associated technologies to other nations as a part of its commitment during the G20 discussions on the digital economy.
Recently, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India would offer next generation (5G) technology and India's application programming interface (API) stack to other countries, following the indigenously designed and development 5G core, a backbone that offers a reliable connectivity to the radio access network, by the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
In addition, the state-controlled firm is also working closely with a few Indian companies and startups to bring radio access networks to the market. But, the lack of ecosystem readiness has apparently further dragged the ambition.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, on the other hand, is also looking to deploy homegrown 5G core and radio network, as a part of its roadmap.
Read also<\/h4><\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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<\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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深入:印度的Atmanirbhar追求:从修辞到现实
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚及瑞典的爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
新德里:印度的雄心勃勃的计划,自力更生在电信设备领域,支持根据激励机制和电信技术发展基金,可能会承担水果但是是否可以使印度巨头华为或相似诺基亚,似乎是一个遥远的现实。
本土企业进入中国庞大的国内市场仍然是混乱的本土产业归咎于缺乏一个公平的环境。然而,局部的电信公司需要重新信任和演示技术proveness行业,尤其是私营企业和国有企业。
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚和瑞典外长爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
后使政策公布了在过去的几年里,印度实体可以出来的中国华为或芬兰诺基亚全球主导市场吗?可以说,没有
这不是轻而易举的事,分析师们表示,一个策略来提高当地制造能力不是新的而是是时候从修辞学转向现实当地生态系统通过提供所需的动力。
中国华为已经失去了一些中国以外的地面。但是,尽管如此,诺基亚、爱立信和华为三大供应商是中国以外的2022年,占近20%,18%,和18%的市场份额,分别根据美国Dell ' oro集团。
印度,现在在五分之一一代或5 g技术联盟,将继续在网络设备上花在2023和2024财政年度。
缺乏市场准入
电信设备和服务出口促进委员会(Tepc),然而,认为“毫无疑问的不信任”或产品不“适用”本土开发的产品,并补充说,产品符合国际标准和特性。
德里Tepc代表近100家本土企业。
“垄断国内市场是一个大的第一步。许多成功的全球产品企业总是经历了这样的发展,”Tepc董事长NG苏说,雄心勃勃的在印度的计划促进采购部门和组织领导的中央政府,但不提供访问,和非政府电信运营商和系统集成商
国内企业责任,缺乏公共部门企业都在中央和国家水平使他们更难维持,甚至早前要求首选市场准入的范围(PMA)应该扩展到私营部门的球员。
这(缺乏)限制了市场对国内研发和产品开发人员可用,需要这样的支持,否则最终创建本地制造业生态系统和满足市场需求除了出口机会,据他。
苏进一步表示,超过授权,要优先考虑国内生产总值相当于消耗各种实体,这样他们可以参与成熟产品和生态系统。
引用中国华为电信行业资深人士表示,这是政府高次握住几适宜当地的公司,这样至少一家公司可以成为强有力的替代,全球电信设备需求。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
这家中国公司持有最高专利在今天5 g和6 g技术。
“我们有一些证明公司在印度部署网络以及海外尽管数量有限。扩展支持他们即使在约束的方式将有助于加速增长和提交进一步投资,“Tepc高管补充道。
采取多管齐下的方法是唯一的出路,让当地的电信公司在全球范围内增长。
后长期需求,电信部门(点)终于在印度推出政策的补充使野心和促进局部知识专有权利(IPR)通过支持研究和开发(研发)当地公司的举措。部门拨款的5%普遍服务义务基金(USOF)对这类项目的本土公司。
USOF大约价值55000卢比的强大的国家语料库为数字连接在农村和偏远地区电信运营商—依赖JioBharti Airtel和沃达丰的想法,提供调整后的总营收的5%。
另一方面,印度企业也需要密切协调和工作证明概念与私人实体展示技术的灵活性和可靠性。
但苏认为毫无疑问的不信任的自主研发的产品或产品不适用,说产品满足国际标准和特性,并经过严格的测试和认证,所以质量会比较和竞争。
“国内企业也有他们的任务减少利用机会,特别是在当前环境下提供的鼓励政府和企业一样,”苏说。
生态系统的需求上升
的印度手机运营商协会(Coai),代表私营企业包括电信运营商和跨国公司如诺基亚、爱立信、思科和Juniper与本土行业不同。
“(当地)生态系统需要开发印度大大能够生产具有全球竞争力的电信设备,同时确保与此同时,这个国家的技术进步不是妥协由于劣质产品在必要的电信基础设施投入使用,“SP Kochhar,总经理,COAI说。
进一步,他缺乏必要的技能属性是印度面临的最大挑战之一,有效的电信设备制造业。
由于当地电信设备制造业生态系统在印度仍处于发展阶段,Kochhar说,要求当地电信设备的部署可能导致创建中断服务和5克推出。
“事实上,超过90%的印度的电信设备目前由于缺少必要的进口生产设备。”
与此同时,当地电信公司尤其是供应商提供有线和无线数据产品,如wi - fi接入点,控制器,开关指责,购买平台如宝石或政府支持跨国公司通过电子交易市场等条件认证严格,阻碍公平的领域。
RK博、总干事、语音的印度Commtech企业(声音)说,公共部门实体跨部门和私营电信公司应该积极和鼓励购买和部署未来国产装置符合国家数字通信政策2018年和让步USOF贡献可以由政府提供。
但德里电信集团,相反,认为不需要妥协的质量实施授权的网络,和优惠的市场准入(PMA)政权在这种情况下会导致前所未有的入侵。
进一步Kochhar觉得国内制造业的激励方法,目前由政府设想,将是一个更谨慎的方式来鼓励发展国内研发、知识产权创造和制造在印度的全球标准,不仅要满足国家的需要,也符合国家目标成为全球制造、研发和供应链中心。
电信进出口需要弥合差距,增加印度公司的份额,认为博。
与此同时,印度政府正热衷于提供支持在整个范围的复杂的在印度4 g和5 g设备和相关技术向其他国家作为其承诺的一部分在G20讨论数字经济。
最近,通讯部长Ashwini Vaishnaw说,印度将提供下一代(5克)技术和印度的应用程序编程接口(API)堆栈到其他国家,自主设计和开发5 g核心后,骨干,提供了一个可靠的连接到无线接入网络,由国营远程信息技术开发中心(C-DoT)。
此外,国有控股公司还与一些印度公司和初创公司密切合作,使无线电接入网络市场。但是,缺乏生态系统准备显然进一步拖的野心。
亿万富翁穆克什Ambani-owned Jio的依赖,另一方面,也希望部署国产5 g核心和无线网络,作为一个路线图的一部分。
读也
印度的视力缺失的牙齿
渴望成为精英俱乐部的成员,印度,但是,需要做更多的工作,包括面向任务的支持一批本土企业。
塔塔咨询服务公司(TCS)简况光辉网络设置部署国产core-backed 4 g网络,升级到5 g,国有Bharat Sanchar Nigam说有限(BSNL)可能是一个案例研究对于许多发展中亚洲和非洲国家。财团,然而两年多达到现阶段。
“目前跨国公司享受一大派在印度市场大部分的授权服务提供商和他们下订单。然而,至少从4 g,印度公司的市场份额将会显著增加。”
在6克,印度应该早期领导人之一与印度公司拥有超过125项专利,爱好者说。但是即使这是一个极小的份额作为全球超过40000项专利已经提交。
Atmanirbhar巴拉特(自力更生)是一个明智之举。需要一个全面的方法,”博士室Sandeep Agarwal说,零进口或国产外国产品可能无法完全避免,但它可能是更好的如果一个国家购买授权的一部分来自自主设计,开发和制造(IDDM)产品。
“印度将成为完全Atmanirbhar但我们需要最初的牵手,并设计和开发需要摊余成本。”
少量、开发成本和高资本和利率最终导致新公司没有雄厚的消亡之前,他们变得富有竞争力,阿加沃说。
4 g和5 g国内生态系统越来越强,和更大的参与在多边论坛包括国际电信联盟(ITU),印度公司,所需的政策支持,将中心舞台。时间是现在!
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI: India's ambitious initiative for self-reliance in the telecom equipment domain, backed by production-linked incentive scheme and telecom technology development fund, is likely to bear fruits but whether that can enable an Indian behemoth akin to Huawei or Nokia<\/a>, seems to be a far off reality.
Homegrown companies' access to the country's vast domestic market remains chaotic as the homegrown industry blames absence of a level-playing field. Nonetheless, the localised telecom firms need to rekindle trust and demonstrate technology proveness to the industry, particularly the private sector and state-owned entities.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia and its Swedish counterpart Ericsson<\/a> command a lion's share of close to 95% in the Indian telecom gear market following the fall of Chinese Huawei and ZTE. This, however, is set to change, albeit not drastically, if homegrown companies make the right move on the back of the government's initiatives.
Following enabling policies unveiled in the last few years, can an Indian entity come out as strong as Chinese Huawei or Finnish Nokia to dominate markets worldwide? Arguably, no
This is no cakewalk, say analysts, adding that a strategy to boost local manufacturing capabilities is not new but it's high time to move from rhetoric to a reality by providing a desired impetus to the local ecosystem.
Chinese Huawei has lost some ground outside of China. But, despite that, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei were the top 3 suppliers outside of China in 2022, and account for close to 20%, 18%, and 18% of the market, respectively, according to the US-based Dell'Oro group.
India, now in a fifth generation or 5G technology league, is set to further up spend on network gear in FY 2023 and 2024.
Lack of market access<\/strong>
The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (Tepc), however, argues that there is 'no question of distrust' or the product not being ‘fit for purpose’ for domestically-developed offerings, and added that products meet the international standards and features.
Delhi-based Tepc represents nearly 100 homegrown companies.
\"Dominating the local market is a big first step. Many successful global product companies have invariably gone through such an evolution,\" NG Subramaniam, chairman of Tepc said, adding that the ambitious ‘Make in India’ scheme promotes procurement in the departments and organisations led by the Central government but does not provide access in states, and non-government telecom operators and system integrators
Domestic companies blame that lack of access in public sector companies both at central and state levels make it tougher for them to sustain, and had earlier even demanded that the scope of preferred market access (PMA) should be extended to private sector players.
This (lack of access) restricts the market available to domestic R&D and product developers, who need such a backing, which otherwise eventually create local manufacturing ecosystems and meet the market needs besides export opportunities, according to him.
Subramaniam further said that more than a mandate, it would be good to prioritise equivalent domestic product consumption by various entities so that they may play a part in maturing the product and the ecosystem.
Citing Chinese Huawei, a telecom industry veteran said that this is a high time for the government to handhold at least a few locally-relevant companies so that at least a single company can emerge as a stronger alternative to telecom gear demand worldwide.
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.
The Chinese company holds highest patents both in 5G and 6G technologies today.
<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\"We have a few proven companies who have deployed network in India as well as overseas albeit in limited volumes. Extending support to them even in a constrained manner would help accelerate their growth and commit further investments,\" Tepc's top executive added.
Taking a multi-pronged approach is the only way out to empower local telecom firms to grow at a global scale.
Following a long-standing demand, the telecom department (DoT) has finally come out with a policy to complement Make in India ambition and facilitate localised Intellectual Proprietary Rights (IPR) by way of supporting research and development (R&D) initiatives of local companies. The department has earmarked 5% of the Universal Service Obligation Fund<\/a> (USOF) towards such initiatives by homegrown companies.
USOF is about Rs 55,000-crore strong state corpus to fund digital connectivity in rural and remote areas in which telecom operators -- Reliance Jio<\/a>, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- contribute 5% of the adjusted gross revenue.
On the flip side, Indian-origin companies too need to work in close coordination and proof of concepts with private entities to demonstrate technological agility and reliability.
But Subramaniam argues that there is no question of distrust of domestically developed products or the product not being ‘fit for purpose, saying that products meet the international standards and features, and they go through the rigor of testing and certification, so quality will be comparable and competitive.
\"The domestic companies also have their task cut out to tap into the opportunity, especially in the current environment of encouragement offered by the government and enterprises alike,\" Subramaniam added.
Ecosystem needs upswing<\/strong>
The Cellular Operators Association of India<\/a> (Coai<\/a>) that represents private sector companies including telecom carriers and multinationals such as Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper differs with homegrown industry.
\"The (local) ecosystem needs to develop considerably for India to be able to produce globally competitive telecom equipment, while ensuring at the same time, that the nation’s technological progress is not compromised owing to sub-standard products put to use in the essential telecom infrastructure,\" SP Kochhar, director general, COAI said.
Further, he attributes lack of requisite skill sets as one of the biggest challenges India faces for effective telecom equipment manufacturing.
Since the local telecom gear manufacturing ecosystem in India is still in its development phase, Kochhar said that mandating the deployment of locally-made telecom gear may result in creating disruptions in the services and 5G rollout in the country.
\"In fact, more than 90% of the telecom equipment in India is presently imported due to the lack of the necessary manufacturing facilities.\"
Meanwhile, local telecom firms particularly vendors offering wireless and wired data products such as Wi-Fi access points, controllers, switches blame that buying platforms such as the GeM or government e-marketplace favour multinationals by making conditions such as certification stringent, discouraging level-playing field.
RK Bhatnagar, director general, Voice of Indian Commtech Enterprises (Voice) said that public sector entities across ministries and private telcos should be motivated and encouraged to buy and deploy locally made gear going forward in line with National Digital Communication Policy 2018, and concessions to their USOF contributions can be provided by the government.
But the Delhi-based telco group, on the contrary, believes that it would not be desirable to compromise the quality of the networks by imposing mandates, and the Preferential Market Access (PMA) regime under these circumstances would lead to an unprecedented intrusion.
Further Kochhar feels that an incentivised approach to domestic manufacturing, as envisaged by the government presently, would be a more prudent way to encourage the development of domestic R&D, IPR creation and manufacturing in India of global standards, to not only meet the country’s needs, but also in line with national objective to become a global manufacturing, R&D and supply chain hub.
Gap between telecom imports and exports need to be bridged so as to increase share of Indian companies, argued Bhatnagar.
Meanwhile, the Indian government is keen on offering support on the entire range of sophisticated made-in-India 4G and 5G equipment, and associated technologies to other nations as a part of its commitment during the G20 discussions on the digital economy.
Recently, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India would offer next generation (5G) technology and India's application programming interface (API) stack to other countries, following the indigenously designed and development 5G core, a backbone that offers a reliable connectivity to the radio access network, by the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
In addition, the state-controlled firm is also working closely with a few Indian companies and startups to bring radio access networks to the market. But, the lack of ecosystem readiness has apparently further dragged the ambition.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, on the other hand, is also looking to deploy homegrown 5G core and radio network, as a part of its roadmap.
Read also<\/h4><\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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<\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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深入:印度的Atmanirbhar追求:从修辞到现实
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚及瑞典的爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
新德里:印度的雄心勃勃的计划,自力更生在电信设备领域,支持根据激励机制和电信技术发展基金,可能会承担水果但是是否可以使印度巨头华为或相似诺基亚,似乎是一个遥远的现实。
本土企业进入中国庞大的国内市场仍然是混乱的本土产业归咎于缺乏一个公平的环境。然而,局部的电信公司需要重新信任和演示技术proveness行业,尤其是私营企业和国有企业。
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚和瑞典外长爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
后使政策公布了在过去的几年里,印度实体可以出来的中国华为或芬兰诺基亚全球主导市场吗?可以说,没有
这不是轻而易举的事,分析师们表示,一个策略来提高当地制造能力不是新的而是是时候从修辞学转向现实当地生态系统通过提供所需的动力。
中国华为已经失去了一些中国以外的地面。但是,尽管如此,诺基亚、爱立信和华为三大供应商是中国以外的2022年,占近20%,18%,和18%的市场份额,分别根据美国Dell ' oro集团。
印度,现在在五分之一一代或5 g技术联盟,将继续在网络设备上花在2023和2024财政年度。
缺乏市场准入
电信设备和服务出口促进委员会(Tepc),然而,认为“毫无疑问的不信任”或产品不“适用”本土开发的产品,并补充说,产品符合国际标准和特性。
德里Tepc代表近100家本土企业。
“垄断国内市场是一个大的第一步。许多成功的全球产品企业总是经历了这样的发展,”Tepc董事长NG苏说,雄心勃勃的在印度的计划促进采购部门和组织领导的中央政府,但不提供访问,和非政府电信运营商和系统集成商
国内企业责任,缺乏公共部门企业都在中央和国家水平使他们更难维持,甚至早前要求首选市场准入的范围(PMA)应该扩展到私营部门的球员。
这(缺乏)限制了市场对国内研发和产品开发人员可用,需要这样的支持,否则最终创建本地制造业生态系统和满足市场需求除了出口机会,据他。
苏进一步表示,超过授权,要优先考虑国内生产总值相当于消耗各种实体,这样他们可以参与成熟产品和生态系统。
引用中国华为电信行业资深人士表示,这是政府高次握住几适宜当地的公司,这样至少一家公司可以成为强有力的替代,全球电信设备需求。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
这家中国公司持有最高专利在今天5 g和6 g技术。
“我们有一些证明公司在印度部署网络以及海外尽管数量有限。扩展支持他们即使在约束的方式将有助于加速增长和提交进一步投资,“Tepc高管补充道。
采取多管齐下的方法是唯一的出路,让当地的电信公司在全球范围内增长。
后长期需求,电信部门(点)终于在印度推出政策的补充使野心和促进局部知识专有权利(IPR)通过支持研究和开发(研发)当地公司的举措。部门拨款的5%普遍服务义务基金(USOF)对这类项目的本土公司。
USOF大约价值55000卢比的强大的国家语料库为数字连接在农村和偏远地区电信运营商—依赖JioBharti Airtel和沃达丰的想法,提供调整后的总营收的5%。
另一方面,印度企业也需要密切协调和工作证明概念与私人实体展示技术的灵活性和可靠性。
但苏认为毫无疑问的不信任的自主研发的产品或产品不适用,说产品满足国际标准和特性,并经过严格的测试和认证,所以质量会比较和竞争。
“国内企业也有他们的任务减少利用机会,特别是在当前环境下提供的鼓励政府和企业一样,”苏说。
生态系统的需求上升
的印度手机运营商协会(Coai),代表私营企业包括电信运营商和跨国公司如诺基亚、爱立信、思科和Juniper与本土行业不同。
“(当地)生态系统需要开发印度大大能够生产具有全球竞争力的电信设备,同时确保与此同时,这个国家的技术进步不是妥协由于劣质产品在必要的电信基础设施投入使用,“SP Kochhar,总经理,COAI说。
进一步,他缺乏必要的技能属性是印度面临的最大挑战之一,有效的电信设备制造业。
由于当地电信设备制造业生态系统在印度仍处于发展阶段,Kochhar说,要求当地电信设备的部署可能导致创建中断服务和5克推出。
“事实上,超过90%的印度的电信设备目前由于缺少必要的进口生产设备。”
与此同时,当地电信公司尤其是供应商提供有线和无线数据产品,如wi - fi接入点,控制器,开关指责,购买平台如宝石或政府支持跨国公司通过电子交易市场等条件认证严格,阻碍公平的领域。
RK博、总干事、语音的印度Commtech企业(声音)说,公共部门实体跨部门和私营电信公司应该积极和鼓励购买和部署未来国产装置符合国家数字通信政策2018年和让步USOF贡献可以由政府提供。
但德里电信集团,相反,认为不需要妥协的质量实施授权的网络,和优惠的市场准入(PMA)政权在这种情况下会导致前所未有的入侵。
进一步Kochhar觉得国内制造业的激励方法,目前由政府设想,将是一个更谨慎的方式来鼓励发展国内研发、知识产权创造和制造在印度的全球标准,不仅要满足国家的需要,也符合国家目标成为全球制造、研发和供应链中心。
电信进出口需要弥合差距,增加印度公司的份额,认为博。
与此同时,印度政府正热衷于提供支持在整个范围的复杂的在印度4 g和5 g设备和相关技术向其他国家作为其承诺的一部分在G20讨论数字经济。
最近,通讯部长Ashwini Vaishnaw说,印度将提供下一代(5克)技术和印度的应用程序编程接口(API)堆栈到其他国家,自主设计和开发5 g核心后,骨干,提供了一个可靠的连接到无线接入网络,由国营远程信息技术开发中心(C-DoT)。
此外,国有控股公司还与一些印度公司和初创公司密切合作,使无线电接入网络市场。但是,缺乏生态系统准备显然进一步拖的野心。
亿万富翁穆克什Ambani-owned Jio的依赖,另一方面,也希望部署国产5 g核心和无线网络,作为一个路线图的一部分。
读也
印度的视力缺失的牙齿
渴望成为精英俱乐部的成员,印度,但是,需要做更多的工作,包括面向任务的支持一批本土企业。
塔塔咨询服务公司(TCS)简况光辉网络设置部署国产core-backed 4 g网络,升级到5 g,国有Bharat Sanchar Nigam说有限(BSNL)可能是一个案例研究对于许多发展中亚洲和非洲国家。财团,然而两年多达到现阶段。
“目前跨国公司享受一大派在印度市场大部分的授权服务提供商和他们下订单。然而,至少从4 g,印度公司的市场份额将会显著增加。”
在6克,印度应该早期领导人之一与印度公司拥有超过125项专利,爱好者说。但是即使这是一个极小的份额作为全球超过40000项专利已经提交。
Atmanirbhar巴拉特(自力更生)是一个明智之举。需要一个全面的方法,”博士室Sandeep Agarwal说,零进口或国产外国产品可能无法完全避免,但它可能是更好的如果一个国家购买授权的一部分来自自主设计,开发和制造(IDDM)产品。
“印度将成为完全Atmanirbhar但我们需要最初的牵手,并设计和开发需要摊余成本。”
少量、开发成本和高资本和利率最终导致新公司没有雄厚的消亡之前,他们变得富有竞争力,阿加沃说。
4 g和5 g国内生态系统越来越强,和更大的参与在多边论坛包括国际电信联盟(ITU),印度公司,所需的政策支持,将中心舞台。时间是现在!
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI: India's ambitious initiative for self-reliance in the telecom equipment domain, backed by production-linked incentive scheme and telecom technology development fund, is likely to bear fruits but whether that can enable an Indian behemoth akin to Huawei or Nokia<\/a>, seems to be a far off reality.
Homegrown companies' access to the country's vast domestic market remains chaotic as the homegrown industry blames absence of a level-playing field. Nonetheless, the localised telecom firms need to rekindle trust and demonstrate technology proveness to the industry, particularly the private sector and state-owned entities.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia and its Swedish counterpart Ericsson<\/a> command a lion's share of close to 95% in the Indian telecom gear market following the fall of Chinese Huawei and ZTE. This, however, is set to change, albeit not drastically, if homegrown companies make the right move on the back of the government's initiatives.
Following enabling policies unveiled in the last few years, can an Indian entity come out as strong as Chinese Huawei or Finnish Nokia to dominate markets worldwide? Arguably, no
This is no cakewalk, say analysts, adding that a strategy to boost local manufacturing capabilities is not new but it's high time to move from rhetoric to a reality by providing a desired impetus to the local ecosystem.
Chinese Huawei has lost some ground outside of China. But, despite that, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei were the top 3 suppliers outside of China in 2022, and account for close to 20%, 18%, and 18% of the market, respectively, according to the US-based Dell'Oro group.
India, now in a fifth generation or 5G technology league, is set to further up spend on network gear in FY 2023 and 2024.
Lack of market access<\/strong>
The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (Tepc), however, argues that there is 'no question of distrust' or the product not being ‘fit for purpose’ for domestically-developed offerings, and added that products meet the international standards and features.
Delhi-based Tepc represents nearly 100 homegrown companies.
\"Dominating the local market is a big first step. Many successful global product companies have invariably gone through such an evolution,\" NG Subramaniam, chairman of Tepc said, adding that the ambitious ‘Make in India’ scheme promotes procurement in the departments and organisations led by the Central government but does not provide access in states, and non-government telecom operators and system integrators
Domestic companies blame that lack of access in public sector companies both at central and state levels make it tougher for them to sustain, and had earlier even demanded that the scope of preferred market access (PMA) should be extended to private sector players.
This (lack of access) restricts the market available to domestic R&D and product developers, who need such a backing, which otherwise eventually create local manufacturing ecosystems and meet the market needs besides export opportunities, according to him.
Subramaniam further said that more than a mandate, it would be good to prioritise equivalent domestic product consumption by various entities so that they may play a part in maturing the product and the ecosystem.
Citing Chinese Huawei, a telecom industry veteran said that this is a high time for the government to handhold at least a few locally-relevant companies so that at least a single company can emerge as a stronger alternative to telecom gear demand worldwide.
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.
The Chinese company holds highest patents both in 5G and 6G technologies today.
<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\"We have a few proven companies who have deployed network in India as well as overseas albeit in limited volumes. Extending support to them even in a constrained manner would help accelerate their growth and commit further investments,\" Tepc's top executive added.
Taking a multi-pronged approach is the only way out to empower local telecom firms to grow at a global scale.
Following a long-standing demand, the telecom department (DoT) has finally come out with a policy to complement Make in India ambition and facilitate localised Intellectual Proprietary Rights (IPR) by way of supporting research and development (R&D) initiatives of local companies. The department has earmarked 5% of the Universal Service Obligation Fund<\/a> (USOF) towards such initiatives by homegrown companies.
USOF is about Rs 55,000-crore strong state corpus to fund digital connectivity in rural and remote areas in which telecom operators -- Reliance Jio<\/a>, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- contribute 5% of the adjusted gross revenue.
On the flip side, Indian-origin companies too need to work in close coordination and proof of concepts with private entities to demonstrate technological agility and reliability.
But Subramaniam argues that there is no question of distrust of domestically developed products or the product not being ‘fit for purpose, saying that products meet the international standards and features, and they go through the rigor of testing and certification, so quality will be comparable and competitive.
\"The domestic companies also have their task cut out to tap into the opportunity, especially in the current environment of encouragement offered by the government and enterprises alike,\" Subramaniam added.
Ecosystem needs upswing<\/strong>
The Cellular Operators Association of India<\/a> (Coai<\/a>) that represents private sector companies including telecom carriers and multinationals such as Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper differs with homegrown industry.
\"The (local) ecosystem needs to develop considerably for India to be able to produce globally competitive telecom equipment, while ensuring at the same time, that the nation’s technological progress is not compromised owing to sub-standard products put to use in the essential telecom infrastructure,\" SP Kochhar, director general, COAI said.
Further, he attributes lack of requisite skill sets as one of the biggest challenges India faces for effective telecom equipment manufacturing.
Since the local telecom gear manufacturing ecosystem in India is still in its development phase, Kochhar said that mandating the deployment of locally-made telecom gear may result in creating disruptions in the services and 5G rollout in the country.
\"In fact, more than 90% of the telecom equipment in India is presently imported due to the lack of the necessary manufacturing facilities.\"
Meanwhile, local telecom firms particularly vendors offering wireless and wired data products such as Wi-Fi access points, controllers, switches blame that buying platforms such as the GeM or government e-marketplace favour multinationals by making conditions such as certification stringent, discouraging level-playing field.
RK Bhatnagar, director general, Voice of Indian Commtech Enterprises (Voice) said that public sector entities across ministries and private telcos should be motivated and encouraged to buy and deploy locally made gear going forward in line with National Digital Communication Policy 2018, and concessions to their USOF contributions can be provided by the government.
But the Delhi-based telco group, on the contrary, believes that it would not be desirable to compromise the quality of the networks by imposing mandates, and the Preferential Market Access (PMA) regime under these circumstances would lead to an unprecedented intrusion.
Further Kochhar feels that an incentivised approach to domestic manufacturing, as envisaged by the government presently, would be a more prudent way to encourage the development of domestic R&D, IPR creation and manufacturing in India of global standards, to not only meet the country’s needs, but also in line with national objective to become a global manufacturing, R&D and supply chain hub.
Gap between telecom imports and exports need to be bridged so as to increase share of Indian companies, argued Bhatnagar.
Meanwhile, the Indian government is keen on offering support on the entire range of sophisticated made-in-India 4G and 5G equipment, and associated technologies to other nations as a part of its commitment during the G20 discussions on the digital economy.
Recently, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India would offer next generation (5G) technology and India's application programming interface (API) stack to other countries, following the indigenously designed and development 5G core, a backbone that offers a reliable connectivity to the radio access network, by the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
In addition, the state-controlled firm is also working closely with a few Indian companies and startups to bring radio access networks to the market. But, the lack of ecosystem readiness has apparently further dragged the ambition.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, on the other hand, is also looking to deploy homegrown 5G core and radio network, as a part of its roadmap.
Read also<\/h4><\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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<\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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深入:印度的Atmanirbhar追求:从修辞到现实
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚及瑞典的爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
新德里:印度的雄心勃勃的计划,自力更生在电信设备领域,支持根据激励机制和电信技术发展基金,可能会承担水果但是是否可以使印度巨头华为或相似诺基亚,似乎是一个遥远的现实。
本土企业进入中国庞大的国内市场仍然是混乱的本土产业归咎于缺乏一个公平的环境。然而,局部的电信公司需要重新信任和演示技术proveness行业,尤其是私营企业和国有企业。
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚和瑞典外长爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
后使政策公布了在过去的几年里,印度实体可以出来的中国华为或芬兰诺基亚全球主导市场吗?可以说,没有
这不是轻而易举的事,分析师们表示,一个策略来提高当地制造能力不是新的而是是时候从修辞学转向现实当地生态系统通过提供所需的动力。
中国华为已经失去了一些中国以外的地面。但是,尽管如此,诺基亚、爱立信和华为三大供应商是中国以外的2022年,占近20%,18%,和18%的市场份额,分别根据美国Dell ' oro集团。
印度,现在在五分之一一代或5 g技术联盟,将继续在网络设备上花在2023和2024财政年度。
缺乏市场准入
电信设备和服务出口促进委员会(Tepc),然而,认为“毫无疑问的不信任”或产品不“适用”本土开发的产品,并补充说,产品符合国际标准和特性。
德里Tepc代表近100家本土企业。
“垄断国内市场是一个大的第一步。许多成功的全球产品企业总是经历了这样的发展,”Tepc董事长NG苏说,雄心勃勃的在印度的计划促进采购部门和组织领导的中央政府,但不提供访问,和非政府电信运营商和系统集成商
国内企业责任,缺乏公共部门企业都在中央和国家水平使他们更难维持,甚至早前要求首选市场准入的范围(PMA)应该扩展到私营部门的球员。
这(缺乏)限制了市场对国内研发和产品开发人员可用,需要这样的支持,否则最终创建本地制造业生态系统和满足市场需求除了出口机会,据他。
苏进一步表示,超过授权,要优先考虑国内生产总值相当于消耗各种实体,这样他们可以参与成熟产品和生态系统。
引用中国华为电信行业资深人士表示,这是政府高次握住几适宜当地的公司,这样至少一家公司可以成为强有力的替代,全球电信设备需求。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
这家中国公司持有最高专利在今天5 g和6 g技术。
“我们有一些证明公司在印度部署网络以及海外尽管数量有限。扩展支持他们即使在约束的方式将有助于加速增长和提交进一步投资,“Tepc高管补充道。
采取多管齐下的方法是唯一的出路,让当地的电信公司在全球范围内增长。
后长期需求,电信部门(点)终于在印度推出政策的补充使野心和促进局部知识专有权利(IPR)通过支持研究和开发(研发)当地公司的举措。部门拨款的5%普遍服务义务基金(USOF)对这类项目的本土公司。
USOF大约价值55000卢比的强大的国家语料库为数字连接在农村和偏远地区电信运营商—依赖JioBharti Airtel和沃达丰的想法,提供调整后的总营收的5%。
另一方面,印度企业也需要密切协调和工作证明概念与私人实体展示技术的灵活性和可靠性。
但苏认为毫无疑问的不信任的自主研发的产品或产品不适用,说产品满足国际标准和特性,并经过严格的测试和认证,所以质量会比较和竞争。
“国内企业也有他们的任务减少利用机会,特别是在当前环境下提供的鼓励政府和企业一样,”苏说。
生态系统的需求上升
的印度手机运营商协会(Coai),代表私营企业包括电信运营商和跨国公司如诺基亚、爱立信、思科和Juniper与本土行业不同。
“(当地)生态系统需要开发印度大大能够生产具有全球竞争力的电信设备,同时确保与此同时,这个国家的技术进步不是妥协由于劣质产品在必要的电信基础设施投入使用,“SP Kochhar,总经理,COAI说。
进一步,他缺乏必要的技能属性是印度面临的最大挑战之一,有效的电信设备制造业。
由于当地电信设备制造业生态系统在印度仍处于发展阶段,Kochhar说,要求当地电信设备的部署可能导致创建中断服务和5克推出。
“事实上,超过90%的印度的电信设备目前由于缺少必要的进口生产设备。”
与此同时,当地电信公司尤其是供应商提供有线和无线数据产品,如wi - fi接入点,控制器,开关指责,购买平台如宝石或政府支持跨国公司通过电子交易市场等条件认证严格,阻碍公平的领域。
RK博、总干事、语音的印度Commtech企业(声音)说,公共部门实体跨部门和私营电信公司应该积极和鼓励购买和部署未来国产装置符合国家数字通信政策2018年和让步USOF贡献可以由政府提供。
但德里电信集团,相反,认为不需要妥协的质量实施授权的网络,和优惠的市场准入(PMA)政权在这种情况下会导致前所未有的入侵。
进一步Kochhar觉得国内制造业的激励方法,目前由政府设想,将是一个更谨慎的方式来鼓励发展国内研发、知识产权创造和制造在印度的全球标准,不仅要满足国家的需要,也符合国家目标成为全球制造、研发和供应链中心。
电信进出口需要弥合差距,增加印度公司的份额,认为博。
与此同时,印度政府正热衷于提供支持在整个范围的复杂的在印度4 g和5 g设备和相关技术向其他国家作为其承诺的一部分在G20讨论数字经济。
最近,通讯部长Ashwini Vaishnaw说,印度将提供下一代(5克)技术和印度的应用程序编程接口(API)堆栈到其他国家,自主设计和开发5 g核心后,骨干,提供了一个可靠的连接到无线接入网络,由国营远程信息技术开发中心(C-DoT)。
此外,国有控股公司还与一些印度公司和初创公司密切合作,使无线电接入网络市场。但是,缺乏生态系统准备显然进一步拖的野心。
亿万富翁穆克什Ambani-owned Jio的依赖,另一方面,也希望部署国产5 g核心和无线网络,作为一个路线图的一部分。
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印度的视力缺失的牙齿
渴望成为精英俱乐部的成员,印度,但是,需要做更多的工作,包括面向任务的支持一批本土企业。
塔塔咨询服务公司(TCS)简况光辉网络设置部署国产core-backed 4 g网络,升级到5 g,国有Bharat Sanchar Nigam说有限(BSNL)可能是一个案例研究对于许多发展中亚洲和非洲国家。财团,然而两年多达到现阶段。
“目前跨国公司享受一大派在印度市场大部分的授权服务提供商和他们下订单。然而,至少从4 g,印度公司的市场份额将会显著增加。”
在6克,印度应该早期领导人之一与印度公司拥有超过125项专利,爱好者说。但是即使这是一个极小的份额作为全球超过40000项专利已经提交。
Atmanirbhar巴拉特(自力更生)是一个明智之举。需要一个全面的方法,”博士室Sandeep Agarwal说,零进口或国产外国产品可能无法完全避免,但它可能是更好的如果一个国家购买授权的一部分来自自主设计,开发和制造(IDDM)产品。
“印度将成为完全Atmanirbhar但我们需要最初的牵手,并设计和开发需要摊余成本。”
少量、开发成本和高资本和利率最终导致新公司没有雄厚的消亡之前,他们变得富有竞争力,阿加沃说。
4 g和5 g国内生态系统越来越强,和更大的参与在多边论坛包括国际电信联盟(ITU),印度公司,所需的政策支持,将中心舞台。时间是现在!
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI: India's ambitious initiative for self-reliance in the telecom equipment domain, backed by production-linked incentive scheme and telecom technology development fund, is likely to bear fruits but whether that can enable an Indian behemoth akin to Huawei or Nokia<\/a>, seems to be a far off reality.
Homegrown companies' access to the country's vast domestic market remains chaotic as the homegrown industry blames absence of a level-playing field. Nonetheless, the localised telecom firms need to rekindle trust and demonstrate technology proveness to the industry, particularly the private sector and state-owned entities.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia and its Swedish counterpart Ericsson<\/a> command a lion's share of close to 95% in the Indian telecom gear market following the fall of Chinese Huawei and ZTE. This, however, is set to change, albeit not drastically, if homegrown companies make the right move on the back of the government's initiatives.
Following enabling policies unveiled in the last few years, can an Indian entity come out as strong as Chinese Huawei or Finnish Nokia to dominate markets worldwide? Arguably, no
This is no cakewalk, say analysts, adding that a strategy to boost local manufacturing capabilities is not new but it's high time to move from rhetoric to a reality by providing a desired impetus to the local ecosystem.
Chinese Huawei has lost some ground outside of China. But, despite that, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei were the top 3 suppliers outside of China in 2022, and account for close to 20%, 18%, and 18% of the market, respectively, according to the US-based Dell'Oro group.
India, now in a fifth generation or 5G technology league, is set to further up spend on network gear in FY 2023 and 2024.
Lack of market access<\/strong>
The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (Tepc), however, argues that there is 'no question of distrust' or the product not being ‘fit for purpose’ for domestically-developed offerings, and added that products meet the international standards and features.
Delhi-based Tepc represents nearly 100 homegrown companies.
\"Dominating the local market is a big first step. Many successful global product companies have invariably gone through such an evolution,\" NG Subramaniam, chairman of Tepc said, adding that the ambitious ‘Make in India’ scheme promotes procurement in the departments and organisations led by the Central government but does not provide access in states, and non-government telecom operators and system integrators
Domestic companies blame that lack of access in public sector companies both at central and state levels make it tougher for them to sustain, and had earlier even demanded that the scope of preferred market access (PMA) should be extended to private sector players.
This (lack of access) restricts the market available to domestic R&D and product developers, who need such a backing, which otherwise eventually create local manufacturing ecosystems and meet the market needs besides export opportunities, according to him.
Subramaniam further said that more than a mandate, it would be good to prioritise equivalent domestic product consumption by various entities so that they may play a part in maturing the product and the ecosystem.
Citing Chinese Huawei, a telecom industry veteran said that this is a high time for the government to handhold at least a few locally-relevant companies so that at least a single company can emerge as a stronger alternative to telecom gear demand worldwide.
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.
The Chinese company holds highest patents both in 5G and 6G technologies today.
<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\"We have a few proven companies who have deployed network in India as well as overseas albeit in limited volumes. Extending support to them even in a constrained manner would help accelerate their growth and commit further investments,\" Tepc's top executive added.
Taking a multi-pronged approach is the only way out to empower local telecom firms to grow at a global scale.
Following a long-standing demand, the telecom department (DoT) has finally come out with a policy to complement Make in India ambition and facilitate localised Intellectual Proprietary Rights (IPR) by way of supporting research and development (R&D) initiatives of local companies. The department has earmarked 5% of the Universal Service Obligation Fund<\/a> (USOF) towards such initiatives by homegrown companies.
USOF is about Rs 55,000-crore strong state corpus to fund digital connectivity in rural and remote areas in which telecom operators -- Reliance Jio<\/a>, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- contribute 5% of the adjusted gross revenue.
On the flip side, Indian-origin companies too need to work in close coordination and proof of concepts with private entities to demonstrate technological agility and reliability.
But Subramaniam argues that there is no question of distrust of domestically developed products or the product not being ‘fit for purpose, saying that products meet the international standards and features, and they go through the rigor of testing and certification, so quality will be comparable and competitive.
\"The domestic companies also have their task cut out to tap into the opportunity, especially in the current environment of encouragement offered by the government and enterprises alike,\" Subramaniam added.
Ecosystem needs upswing<\/strong>
The Cellular Operators Association of India<\/a> (Coai<\/a>) that represents private sector companies including telecom carriers and multinationals such as Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper differs with homegrown industry.
\"The (local) ecosystem needs to develop considerably for India to be able to produce globally competitive telecom equipment, while ensuring at the same time, that the nation’s technological progress is not compromised owing to sub-standard products put to use in the essential telecom infrastructure,\" SP Kochhar, director general, COAI said.
Further, he attributes lack of requisite skill sets as one of the biggest challenges India faces for effective telecom equipment manufacturing.
Since the local telecom gear manufacturing ecosystem in India is still in its development phase, Kochhar said that mandating the deployment of locally-made telecom gear may result in creating disruptions in the services and 5G rollout in the country.
\"In fact, more than 90% of the telecom equipment in India is presently imported due to the lack of the necessary manufacturing facilities.\"
Meanwhile, local telecom firms particularly vendors offering wireless and wired data products such as Wi-Fi access points, controllers, switches blame that buying platforms such as the GeM or government e-marketplace favour multinationals by making conditions such as certification stringent, discouraging level-playing field.
RK Bhatnagar, director general, Voice of Indian Commtech Enterprises (Voice) said that public sector entities across ministries and private telcos should be motivated and encouraged to buy and deploy locally made gear going forward in line with National Digital Communication Policy 2018, and concessions to their USOF contributions can be provided by the government.
But the Delhi-based telco group, on the contrary, believes that it would not be desirable to compromise the quality of the networks by imposing mandates, and the Preferential Market Access (PMA) regime under these circumstances would lead to an unprecedented intrusion.
Further Kochhar feels that an incentivised approach to domestic manufacturing, as envisaged by the government presently, would be a more prudent way to encourage the development of domestic R&D, IPR creation and manufacturing in India of global standards, to not only meet the country’s needs, but also in line with national objective to become a global manufacturing, R&D and supply chain hub.
Gap between telecom imports and exports need to be bridged so as to increase share of Indian companies, argued Bhatnagar.
Meanwhile, the Indian government is keen on offering support on the entire range of sophisticated made-in-India 4G and 5G equipment, and associated technologies to other nations as a part of its commitment during the G20 discussions on the digital economy.
Recently, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India would offer next generation (5G) technology and India's application programming interface (API) stack to other countries, following the indigenously designed and development 5G core, a backbone that offers a reliable connectivity to the radio access network, by the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
In addition, the state-controlled firm is also working closely with a few Indian companies and startups to bring radio access networks to the market. But, the lack of ecosystem readiness has apparently further dragged the ambition.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, on the other hand, is also looking to deploy homegrown 5G core and radio network, as a part of its roadmap.
Read also<\/h4><\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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深入:印度的Atmanirbhar追求:从修辞到现实
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚及瑞典的爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
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本土企业进入中国庞大的国内市场仍然是混乱的本土产业归咎于缺乏一个公平的环境。然而,局部的电信公司需要重新信任和演示技术proveness行业,尤其是私营企业和国有企业。
芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚和瑞典外长爱立信命令的最大份额接近95%的印度电信设备市场后中国的华为和中兴。然而,这将改变,尽管不彻底,如果本土企业做出正确的行动的政府的计划。
后使政策公布了在过去的几年里,印度实体可以出来的中国华为或芬兰诺基亚全球主导市场吗?可以说,没有
这不是轻而易举的事,分析师们表示,一个策略来提高当地制造能力不是新的而是是时候从修辞学转向现实当地生态系统通过提供所需的动力。
中国华为已经失去了一些中国以外的地面。但是,尽管如此,诺基亚、爱立信和华为三大供应商是中国以外的2022年,占近20%,18%,和18%的市场份额,分别根据美国Dell ' oro集团。
印度,现在在五分之一一代或5 g技术联盟,将继续在网络设备上花在2023和2024财政年度。
缺乏市场准入
电信设备和服务出口促进委员会(Tepc),然而,认为“毫无疑问的不信任”或产品不“适用”本土开发的产品,并补充说,产品符合国际标准和特性。
德里Tepc代表近100家本土企业。
“垄断国内市场是一个大的第一步。许多成功的全球产品企业总是经历了这样的发展,”Tepc董事长NG苏说,雄心勃勃的在印度的计划促进采购部门和组织领导的中央政府,但不提供访问,和非政府电信运营商和系统集成商
国内企业责任,缺乏公共部门企业都在中央和国家水平使他们更难维持,甚至早前要求首选市场准入的范围(PMA)应该扩展到私营部门的球员。
这(缺乏)限制了市场对国内研发和产品开发人员可用,需要这样的支持,否则最终创建本地制造业生态系统和满足市场需求除了出口机会,据他。
苏进一步表示,超过授权,要优先考虑国内生产总值相当于消耗各种实体,这样他们可以参与成熟产品和生态系统。
引用中国华为电信行业资深人士表示,这是政府高次握住几适宜当地的公司,这样至少一家公司可以成为强有力的替代,全球电信设备需求。
中国共产党政权的支持,华为成立于1987年,现在已经成为一个顶级电信公司在100多个国家有业务与200000名员工基本服务全球超过30亿用户。
这家中国公司持有最高专利在今天5 g和6 g技术。
采取多管齐下的方法是唯一的出路,让当地的电信公司在全球范围内增长。
后长期需求,电信部门(点)终于在印度推出政策的补充使野心和促进局部知识专有权利(IPR)通过支持研究和开发(研发)当地公司的举措。部门拨款的5%普遍服务义务基金(USOF)对这类项目的本土公司。
USOF大约价值55000卢比的强大的国家语料库为数字连接在农村和偏远地区电信运营商—依赖JioBharti Airtel和沃达丰的想法,提供调整后的总营收的5%。
另一方面,印度企业也需要密切协调和工作证明概念与私人实体展示技术的灵活性和可靠性。
但苏认为毫无疑问的不信任的自主研发的产品或产品不适用,说产品满足国际标准和特性,并经过严格的测试和认证,所以质量会比较和竞争。
“国内企业也有他们的任务减少利用机会,特别是在当前环境下提供的鼓励政府和企业一样,”苏说。
生态系统的需求上升
的印度手机运营商协会(Coai),代表私营企业包括电信运营商和跨国公司如诺基亚、爱立信、思科和Juniper与本土行业不同。
“(当地)生态系统需要开发印度大大能够生产具有全球竞争力的电信设备,同时确保与此同时,这个国家的技术进步不是妥协由于劣质产品在必要的电信基础设施投入使用,“SP Kochhar,总经理,COAI说。
进一步,他缺乏必要的技能属性是印度面临的最大挑战之一,有效的电信设备制造业。
由于当地电信设备制造业生态系统在印度仍处于发展阶段,Kochhar说,要求当地电信设备的部署可能导致创建中断服务和5克推出。
“事实上,超过90%的印度的电信设备目前由于缺少必要的进口生产设备。”
与此同时,当地电信公司尤其是供应商提供有线和无线数据产品,如wi - fi接入点,控制器,开关指责,购买平台如宝石或政府支持跨国公司通过电子交易市场等条件认证严格,阻碍公平的领域。
RK博、总干事、语音的印度Commtech企业(声音)说,公共部门实体跨部门和私营电信公司应该积极和鼓励购买和部署未来国产装置符合国家数字通信政策2018年和让步USOF贡献可以由政府提供。
但德里电信集团,相反,认为不需要妥协的质量实施授权的网络,和优惠的市场准入(PMA)政权在这种情况下会导致前所未有的入侵。
进一步Kochhar觉得国内制造业的激励方法,目前由政府设想,将是一个更谨慎的方式来鼓励发展国内研发、知识产权创造和制造在印度的全球标准,不仅要满足国家的需要,也符合国家目标成为全球制造、研发和供应链中心。
电信进出口需要弥合差距,增加印度公司的份额,认为博。
与此同时,印度政府正热衷于提供支持在整个范围的复杂的在印度4 g和5 g设备和相关技术向其他国家作为其承诺的一部分在G20讨论数字经济。
最近,通讯部长Ashwini Vaishnaw说,印度将提供下一代(5克)技术和印度的应用程序编程接口(API)堆栈到其他国家,自主设计和开发5 g核心后,骨干,提供了一个可靠的连接到无线接入网络,由国营远程信息技术开发中心(C-DoT)。
此外,国有控股公司还与一些印度公司和初创公司密切合作,使无线电接入网络市场。但是,缺乏生态系统准备显然进一步拖的野心。
亿万富翁穆克什Ambani-owned Jio的依赖,另一方面,也希望部署国产5 g核心和无线网络,作为一个路线图的一部分。
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印度的视力缺失的牙齿
渴望成为精英俱乐部的成员,印度,但是,需要做更多的工作,包括面向任务的支持一批本土企业。
塔塔咨询服务公司(TCS)简况光辉网络设置部署国产core-backed 4 g网络,升级到5 g,国有Bharat Sanchar Nigam说有限(BSNL)可能是一个案例研究对于许多发展中亚洲和非洲国家。财团,然而两年多达到现阶段。
“目前跨国公司享受一大派在印度市场大部分的授权服务提供商和他们下订单。然而,至少从4 g,印度公司的市场份额将会显著增加。”
在6克,印度应该早期领导人之一与印度公司拥有超过125项专利,爱好者说。但是即使这是一个极小的份额作为全球超过40000项专利已经提交。
Atmanirbhar巴拉特(自力更生)是一个明智之举。需要一个全面的方法,”博士室Sandeep Agarwal说,零进口或国产外国产品可能无法完全避免,但它可能是更好的如果一个国家购买授权的一部分来自自主设计,开发和制造(IDDM)产品。
“印度将成为完全Atmanirbhar但我们需要最初的牵手,并设计和开发需要摊余成本。”
少量、开发成本和高资本和利率最终导致新公司没有雄厚的消亡之前,他们变得富有竞争力,阿加沃说。
4 g和5 g国内生态系统越来越强,和更大的参与在多边论坛包括国际电信联盟(ITU),印度公司,所需的政策支持,将中心舞台。时间是现在!
Homegrown companies' access to the country's vast domestic market remains chaotic as the homegrown industry blames absence of a level-playing field. Nonetheless, the localised telecom firms need to rekindle trust and demonstrate technology proveness to the industry, particularly the private sector and state-owned entities.
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia and its Swedish counterpart Ericsson<\/a> command a lion's share of close to 95% in the Indian telecom gear market following the fall of Chinese Huawei and ZTE. This, however, is set to change, albeit not drastically, if homegrown companies make the right move on the back of the government's initiatives.
Following enabling policies unveiled in the last few years, can an Indian entity come out as strong as Chinese Huawei or Finnish Nokia to dominate markets worldwide? Arguably, no
This is no cakewalk, say analysts, adding that a strategy to boost local manufacturing capabilities is not new but it's high time to move from rhetoric to a reality by providing a desired impetus to the local ecosystem.
Chinese Huawei has lost some ground outside of China. But, despite that, Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei were the top 3 suppliers outside of China in 2022, and account for close to 20%, 18%, and 18% of the market, respectively, according to the US-based Dell'Oro group.
India, now in a fifth generation or 5G technology league, is set to further up spend on network gear in FY 2023 and 2024.
Lack of market access<\/strong>
The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (Tepc), however, argues that there is 'no question of distrust' or the product not being ‘fit for purpose’ for domestically-developed offerings, and added that products meet the international standards and features.
Delhi-based Tepc represents nearly 100 homegrown companies.
\"Dominating the local market is a big first step. Many successful global product companies have invariably gone through such an evolution,\" NG Subramaniam, chairman of Tepc said, adding that the ambitious ‘Make in India’ scheme promotes procurement in the departments and organisations led by the Central government but does not provide access in states, and non-government telecom operators and system integrators
Domestic companies blame that lack of access in public sector companies both at central and state levels make it tougher for them to sustain, and had earlier even demanded that the scope of preferred market access (PMA) should be extended to private sector players.
This (lack of access) restricts the market available to domestic R&D and product developers, who need such a backing, which otherwise eventually create local manufacturing ecosystems and meet the market needs besides export opportunities, according to him.
Subramaniam further said that more than a mandate, it would be good to prioritise equivalent domestic product consumption by various entities so that they may play a part in maturing the product and the ecosystem.
Citing Chinese Huawei, a telecom industry veteran said that this is a high time for the government to handhold at least a few locally-relevant companies so that at least a single company can emerge as a stronger alternative to telecom gear demand worldwide.
Backed by the Chinese communist regime, Huawei, founded in 1987, has now become a top telecom company having operations in more than 100 countries with 200,000-strong employee base serving more than 3 billion subscribers worldwide.
The Chinese company holds highest patents both in 5G and 6G technologies today.
Taking a multi-pronged approach is the only way out to empower local telecom firms to grow at a global scale.
Following a long-standing demand, the telecom department (DoT) has finally come out with a policy to complement Make in India ambition and facilitate localised Intellectual Proprietary Rights (IPR) by way of supporting research and development (R&D) initiatives of local companies. The department has earmarked 5% of the Universal Service Obligation Fund<\/a> (USOF) towards such initiatives by homegrown companies.
USOF is about Rs 55,000-crore strong state corpus to fund digital connectivity in rural and remote areas in which telecom operators -- Reliance Jio<\/a>, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea -- contribute 5% of the adjusted gross revenue.
On the flip side, Indian-origin companies too need to work in close coordination and proof of concepts with private entities to demonstrate technological agility and reliability.
But Subramaniam argues that there is no question of distrust of domestically developed products or the product not being ‘fit for purpose, saying that products meet the international standards and features, and they go through the rigor of testing and certification, so quality will be comparable and competitive.
\"The domestic companies also have their task cut out to tap into the opportunity, especially in the current environment of encouragement offered by the government and enterprises alike,\" Subramaniam added.
Ecosystem needs upswing<\/strong>
The Cellular Operators Association of India<\/a> (Coai<\/a>) that represents private sector companies including telecom carriers and multinationals such as Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper differs with homegrown industry.
\"The (local) ecosystem needs to develop considerably for India to be able to produce globally competitive telecom equipment, while ensuring at the same time, that the nation’s technological progress is not compromised owing to sub-standard products put to use in the essential telecom infrastructure,\" SP Kochhar, director general, COAI said.
Further, he attributes lack of requisite skill sets as one of the biggest challenges India faces for effective telecom equipment manufacturing.
Since the local telecom gear manufacturing ecosystem in India is still in its development phase, Kochhar said that mandating the deployment of locally-made telecom gear may result in creating disruptions in the services and 5G rollout in the country.
\"In fact, more than 90% of the telecom equipment in India is presently imported due to the lack of the necessary manufacturing facilities.\"
Meanwhile, local telecom firms particularly vendors offering wireless and wired data products such as Wi-Fi access points, controllers, switches blame that buying platforms such as the GeM or government e-marketplace favour multinationals by making conditions such as certification stringent, discouraging level-playing field.
RK Bhatnagar, director general, Voice of Indian Commtech Enterprises (Voice) said that public sector entities across ministries and private telcos should be motivated and encouraged to buy and deploy locally made gear going forward in line with National Digital Communication Policy 2018, and concessions to their USOF contributions can be provided by the government.
But the Delhi-based telco group, on the contrary, believes that it would not be desirable to compromise the quality of the networks by imposing mandates, and the Preferential Market Access (PMA) regime under these circumstances would lead to an unprecedented intrusion.
Further Kochhar feels that an incentivised approach to domestic manufacturing, as envisaged by the government presently, would be a more prudent way to encourage the development of domestic R&D, IPR creation and manufacturing in India of global standards, to not only meet the country’s needs, but also in line with national objective to become a global manufacturing, R&D and supply chain hub.
Gap between telecom imports and exports need to be bridged so as to increase share of Indian companies, argued Bhatnagar.
Meanwhile, the Indian government is keen on offering support on the entire range of sophisticated made-in-India 4G and 5G equipment, and associated technologies to other nations as a part of its commitment during the G20 discussions on the digital economy.
Recently, communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India would offer next generation (5G) technology and India's application programming interface (API) stack to other countries, following the indigenously designed and development 5G core, a backbone that offers a reliable connectivity to the radio access network, by the state-run Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT).
In addition, the state-controlled firm is also working closely with a few Indian companies and startups to bring radio access networks to the market. But, the lack of ecosystem readiness has apparently further dragged the ambition.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio, on the other hand, is also looking to deploy homegrown 5G core and radio network, as a part of its roadmap.
Read also<\/h4><\/a><\/figure>In-depth: Can India ever be Atmanirbhar in telecom?<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Let industry handle USO fund: GSMA’s Mats Granryd<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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<\/a><\/figure>Chinese resistance globally to encourage India’s homegrown 5G gear development: Paulraj<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/a><\/figure>Homegrown 5G core network from Jio, Tata likely this year: C-DoT CEO<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
India's vision lack teeth<\/strong>
In an aspiration to become an elite club member, India, however, needs to do more that includes task-oriented support to a clutch of homegrown companies.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)-driven Tejas Networks which is set to deploy homegrown core-backed 4G network, upgradable to 5G, for state-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to be a case study for many developing Asian and African countries. Consortium, however took more than two years to reach to a present stage.
\"Presently multinationals enjoy a major pie in the Indian market as most of the licensed service providers place orders with them. However, at least from 4G and beyond, market share of Indian companies is going to increase significantly.\"
In 6G, India should be one of the early leaders with more than 125 patents with Indian companies, enthusiasts say. But even that is a minuscule share as more than 40,000 patents already filed worldwide.
Atmanirbhar Bharat<\/a> (self reliance<\/a>) is a smart move. A holistic approach is needed,\" Sandeep Agarwal of PHD Chamber said, adding that zero imports or domestically produced foreign products may not be totally avoided, but it could be better if a part of country's purchase is mandated to be from indigenously designed, developed and manufactured (IDDM) products.
\"India is set to become fully Atmanirbhar but we need initial hand holding, and the cost of design and development needs to be amortised.\"
Small quantity, development cost, and high capital and interest rates eventually lead new companies without deep pockets to die out before they become competitive, Agarwal added.
With the 4G and 5G domestic ecosystem becoming stronger, and a greater participation at multilateral forums including International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Indian companies, with desired policy support, are set to come to centre stage. Time is now!
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