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Ericsson, telcos oppose India’s telecom equipment source code demand
- Wednesday | 1st July, 2020
Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson and India’s telecoms representative body COAI raised serious concerns and opposed the government’s demand to provide equipment “source code” for scrutiny. Ericsson’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Erik Ekudden, in his letter to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), said that outcome of source code review “would be questionable”. Chinese telecom gear vendors –Huawei and ZTE –previously offered access to their respective product or equipment source code to allay security-related concerns of the Indian government. COAI and its partners have said that they already comply with worldwide standards practice, including GSMA’s Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS). The body said that discussions with the telecom department on the Indian telecom security assurance requirements (ITSAR) have been ongoing for over a year and the requirement to submit the source code was never raised earlier by the security testing team of the department.
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