Telecom and road hurdle to Chinese

Highways and telecom are the two new sectors where the Narendra Modi government plans to raise entry barriers to Chinese businesses.

The BSNL cancelled on Wednesday a tender for rolling out the 4G network after the department of telecom (DoT) asked the telecom operator to stop using Chinese telecom equipment, delivering a massive blow to ZTE, the Chinese partner it was working with.

“Tender for planning, engineering, supply, installation, testing commissioning and annual maintenance of 4G mobile network in the north, east, west and south zones of BSNL and Delhi and the Mumbai licensed service area (LSA) of MTNL on a turnkey basis issued on March 23, 2020, is hereby cancelled,” state-run BSNL said in a notification.