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BSNL cancels $6.8bn Huawei tender
07 December 2009
India’s BSNL appears to have turned down an order to Huawei to expand its GSM operations in part of the country, as other parts of the project are also being challenged
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An order from Indian state-owned operator BSNL to Huawei is in question after reports that the service provider decided that it could not accept the vendor’s conditions.
BSNL, led by Kuldeep Goyal, placed orders with Huawei for 20 million GSM lines for the south zone of its operations, in a $6.8 billion capacity addition programme. The company is in talks with Ericsson for the north and eastern region of its network.
It is the second controversy for the BSNL expansion programme, which may result in fresh bids for the whole project.
BSNL turned down bids from Nokia Siemens Networks, ZTE and Alcatel Lucent. NSN challenged the rejection by BSNL in the courts and a final verdict on it is awaited.
BSNL had floated a tender in 2008 for procuring equipment to expand its GSM network by 93 million lines in four zones — north, west, south and east. GTB