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Follow UsNEW DELHI, INDIA: Time and again, credibility crisis over Chinese vendors have surfaced. Shenzhen-based Huawei is no exception to it. Even as the home ministry bats for a test lab, the DoT’s security wing has once again reportedly raised concern over Huawei's products and its import system.
Chinese companies like Huawei have embedded strategic interest unlike companies like Cisco and Nokia. Huawei's cost of equipment is cheaper than others, because it is believed that it even steals IPs, the report alleges.
However, the telecom equipment giant termed the report as an allegation and said it hasn't received any communication from the government so far.
Clarifying the same, Huawei, in a statement to CIOL, said: "Huawei is completely a transparent private global business entity and is ready to engage with the government and its agencies on any issue concerned, though there has been no such official word."
"We have been proactively collaborating and cooperating with the Indian government to ensure full compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements locally at par with international standards," Huawei said.
"With more than 6,000 employees in India, Huawei has a dedicated R&D lab and local manufacturing facility as well as centres for training, services and operational excellence,” the statement read.
It can be recalled that citing security concerns, Australia recently debarred Huawei from bidding for its ambitious national high-speed Internet cable network. State-owned BSNL, in 2010, too scrapped a contract awarded to Huawei and ZTE for GSM in north-east zones on precautionary grounds.
The new security policy to be mandated from 2014 will facilitate network elements tested for bugs and Trojan attacks in the Indian laboratories. The pilot is under way in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.