- Deepa Tyagi has been appointed as the interim chief of Telecommunication Engineering Centre
- Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) is a testing and certification agency of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)
Following the retirement of Radha Mohan Chaturvedi from the position of TEC’s chief this week, Deepa Tyagi has been appointed as the interim chief of the testing and certification agency that works under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Tyagi is an electronics and communications engineer from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee).
The government of India might soon start advicing private telecom gears against using 5G telecom equipment originating from China-based firms like ZTE and Huawei. The central government might also review Chinese-contracts with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL).
Mandatory testing
The Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) had recently notified the list of telecom products that would be put under mandatory testing regime under phase – II of Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecommunications Equipment (MTCTE) regime. This regime has been mandated from First October 2020. These include transmission terminal gear, multiplexing equipment, Passive Optical Network (PON) broadband equipment and feedback devices.
“It is hereby notified that testing and certification of telecommunications equipment under phase – II of Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecommunications Equipment (MTCTE) regime as provisioned in the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Rules 2017 shall be mandatory with effect from First October, 2020,” read the official statement by TEC.
“TEMA has been demanding mandatory testing since 2010 and that the Government of India as far as back on 30.11.2012 recognized security threat from China Telecom Equipments and decided that from 1.4.2013 the certification shall be done by only recognized labs/agencies in India, vide PIB Press Note 30.11.2012. The above said mandatory testing has been postponed from time to time and last extension was up to 1.8.2019,” informed Prof NK Goyal, Chairman Emeritus, TEMA.
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