China is crying foul after its telecom companies were kept out of India’s 5G technologies and spectrum trials and is urging India to “do more to enhance mutual trust” between both nations. Reacting to India's department of telecommunications' choice not to incorporate Chinese firms in the trials, Chinese embassy representative Wang Xiaojian expressed “concern and regret that Chinese telecommunications companies have not been permitted to conduct 5G trials with Indian telecom service providers”. China lost a major share of Indian users because of the infamous border clashes with India last year. This non-inclusion of Chinese brands also points towards the bigger possibility that China might not be allowed to roll out its 5G services in India. There have been long-standing security concerns over the investment of Chinese firms such as Huawei and ZTE in India's 5G trials.

Source: Standard Digital May 20, 2021 08:26 UTC