The Big Picture : Protecting Telecom Sector

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has amended the telecom licenses to mandate the use of equipment only from trusted sources from June 15, 2021. This move is widely believed to be India’s first formal step towards keeping Chinese suppliers out of India's future telecom expansion, including 5G technology roll outs. In this episode we will discuss and analyse all aspects of this issue.

Anchor:- Vishal Dahiya

Producer:- Sagheer Ahmad

Guest Name:-

1- Sadhna Dixit, Former Advisor, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, GoI

2- Dr. Mahesh Uppal, Director, ComFirst India

[MANISHTIWARI-vlhc]

Three panellists required for good discussion

[priyankachoudhary]

People put in so much effort to bring such informative discussion for us.
And we here from the comfort of our home, choose to pass negative comments on them to bring their morale down.
Wow👏

[ShivShankar-tmxc]

several aspects to protect our Telecom sector in cybersecurity, inflation in Telecom equipments, capacity building to give rock solid competition to Chinese companies. currently indian Telecom sector having only 3 major Telecom companies with ambition to achieve 5 G technlogy they are working in that direction. some where we have issues related to Telecom companies, we don't have strong rule and regulations which benefits both govt and company mutually.we are one of the largest smartphone user in the world, where need of strong network with low cost.

[sahastrajitsingh]

*Points from the Debate in runtime*

Context

The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has
amended the telecom licenses to mandate the use of equipment only from trusted sources from June
15, 2021. This move is widely believed to be India's first formal step towards keeping Chinese suppliers out of India's future telecom expansion, including 5G technology roll outs.

NDC 2018 secure India
Infrastructure interdependence

Backbone of digital technology
Vulnerability- cybersecurity
A lot is at stake

Need- Security of network
Pandemic is a factor, challenge.

Implications in ease and speed of implementation.
What abot maintenance of existing equipments?

Monitoring mechanism, incentives, players will be crucial
Conflict - commercial vs security

Early costs have to bear, PLI is a solution
Need for R and D
Capital intensive and time consuming but worth it .

Our approach should be by solid analysis.
Chinese stonewalling is not explicit.
But we need to buckle up.

5G. Rollout and cost factor
Biggest vendor from China
Need to look into the matter.
Some costs would be borne

Bearing on spectrum auction right now?
Yes
For now permission need to take products from unlisted players .

Industry requirements
1. Transparency
2.more completion need but lesser players there

3. Make in India, long term

Conclusion
Digital tech is the future
CYBERSECURITY law in place
People's trust .
Security can't be compromised.

[RaviKanaujiya]

till then keep on watching 'Sansad Television"

[parteekkumar]

TELECOM SECTOR ALONG WITH VARIOUS IT SERVICES BOOSTING CONTINUOUSLY ECONOMIC GROWTH

[riteshsingh-dikx]

Has Loksabha and Rajyasabha tv been emerged???

[sprouts]

How was Frank sir's UPSC Interview ? It was his last attempt 🤔

[secularvadi]

Not much informative
No body can replace our Frank sir

[geetanjalisingh]

The anchor is too verbose. Unnecessary conjunctions and reiterating the panelists in the same verbatim can be avoided.

Can we please have Frank sir back to the show..

[dineshmalhotra]

Frank sir has left sansad TV erst rstv and started his own bharata