3G Services in India Placed on Hold

Padmini Harchandrai • December 21, 2010, 09:54:22 IST

3G services may once again be delayed unless these companies adhere to government security rules.

Long-awaited 3G services in India may once again be placed on hold as the government has asked operators like Reliance Comm and Tata Teleservices to stop their launch of 3G. The telecom operators will only be allowed to resume launching 3G services once they have adhered to the government’s security norms for legal interception.

Yea, don’t hold your breath

It seems that these norms seem to mostly apply to 3G video calls. The Department of Telecommunications says that for security measures, they need to be able to intercept these video calls in real time. During a demonstration by the telecom operators, the DoT found that calls longer than eight minutes could not be intercepted.

This hold comes at the annoyance of private telecom operators as state-owned telecom operators, MTNL and BSNL have been allowed to roll out their 3G services with none of these security issues addressed.

Written by Padmini Harchandrai

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