Recently, it was announced that India has confirmed that it will launch commercial 5G in the second half of this year, and the Indian cabinet has approved the work on the 5G spectrum auction, which is scheduled to take place in July this year. However, 5G manufacturers such as Huawei and ZTE are not allowed to participate in 5G trials in India. So what is 5G trial? In short, it is the preparation work in the early stage of 5G construction, and the 5G scenario is tested before the 5G construction to avoid possible problems.
There are three major telecom operators in India, namely Reliance Jio, Barty Telecom, Vodafone India, these three major telecom operators have previously selected 5G suppliers, namely Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and other telecommunications equipment providers, unfortunately there is no Huawei and ZTE and other Chinese companies in the list.
That is to say, Huawei and ZTE do not have the opportunity to participate in India's 5G trials, which means that Huawei and ZTE will not be able to participate in the subsequent 5G construction and will completely lose India's 5G orders.
At the same time, in the telecommunications license amendment passed by India in March this year, it is clear that equipment can only be purchased from "trusted" suppliers approved by the designated body, and it is clear that the reasons for the failure of Huawei and ZTE are self-evident.
However, obviously, this is also unreasonable, to know that Huawei, ZTE's telecommunications equipment, not only in the domestic audience, but also in many countries around the world also have orders, whether it is trustworthy, I believe this issue does not need to be discussed anymore.
As early as the 2G era, Huawei is one of the largest broadband equipment suppliers in India, in the cdma field, in 2007, Huawei signed a contract with India's major CDMA operators for nearly 300 million US dollars, Huawei took over the construction of nearly 9,000 base stations in India, covering an area of more than 40% of India's territory.
In addition, Huawei has established a large R&D center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, which has invested more than $400 million in the past few years.
Huawei has been working in the Indian market for many years, with a certain depth of accumulation, And India's network construction is also very dependent on Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese enterprise suppliers, so why has the attitude suddenly changed in the past two years?
Excluding Huawei may not be the intention of Indian operators, the chairman of India's largest operator, Barty Telecom, has previously said that Huawei has more advantages than ericsson and Nokia products. He also praised Huawei's telecom products as having a competitive advantage over European products. In March last year, Barty Telecom also partnered with Huawei on a 3 billion rupees (267 million yuan) infrastructure project.
India's attitude change, obviously Lao Mei is the initiator, in the Lao United States continue to spread the so-called "network security" problem, coupled with some countries in Europe have successively excluded Huawei, ZTE equipment, forcing India to finally make a choice.
Of course, India excludes Huawei, and on the loss, India may be more serious. First of all, one-third of Barty's 4G equipment comes from Huawei, and India excludes Huawei, replacing equipment from other companies, in addition to bearing the huge cost of replacing equipment, but also risking that India may miss the 5G development express.
Second, at present, there is a consensus in the world to achieve industrial change and business model innovation through 5G network technology. Huawei's advantages in the field of 5G are obvious to all, and if India wants to develop 5G, it will naturally consider the quality of suppliers and service levels. India' exclusion of Huawei will only face more challenges in the next 5G network construction, or will slow the country's 5G network construction for a few years.
As Ren Zhengfei said: The best 5G technology in the world is Huawei, these countries do not use Huawei 5G, the biggest loss is their own.