Japanese companies keen to establish telecom gear test labs in India.

Japanese companies are keen to establish telecom gear test labs in India even as the government prepares to invite bids from private lab operators to pave the way for local testing from July 2014. Japan, however, wants the telecom department (DoT) to share the vulnerability levels of Indian mobile networks and privacy laws on protecting the intellectual property rights (IPRs) of global network gear suppliers. This is because all imported network gear will be subject to security check by local test lab before deployment in Indian telecom networks from next July.

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