Security agencies still concerned over Chinese telecom firms

New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) The two Chinese telecom firms
wanting to do business in India are still under the scrutiny
of the security agencies who will take a final call only after
they get additional information sought from them.
A high-level meeting chaired by India's Cabinet Secretary
K M Chandrasekhar was recently held to discuss "in totality"
the issues related to Chinese companies doing business in
India in which recent hacking attempts from China were also
deliberated upon, according to official sources. Some Chinese
companies have raised security concerns in India.
The security agencies expressed reservations on allowing
the Chinese companies in telecom and information technology
citing the incidents of Chinese hackers targeting sensitive
data on government websites, they said.
Union Home Secretary G K Pillai will be chairing another
meeting soon to have a thread-bare discussion on the issue.
A controversy had even broken over Union environment
minister Jairam Ramesh's remark against the home ministry over
its decision regarding the two Chinese telecom companies,
In a recent meeting with officials of Chinese telecom
company ZTE, the Home Ministry had sought clarifications and
additional information before giving green signal to the use
of its equipment in India.
ZTE and Huwaei Technologies are the two Chinese telecom
companies whose equipment evoked security concerns in India.
Though ZTE has already given certain clarifications and
have said they sell their equipment to other countries too, it
has so far failed to satisfy the security agencies, sources
said.
Sources said the Chinese are aware that the border areas
and certain other parts of the country will be restricted
areas for them but want a level-playing field in other
sectors.
Pillai had said that India's norms for foreign telecom
companies for doing business in the country were not loaded
against China and every proposal is decided on a case-by-case
basis. PTI ABS
MRD


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