国内英语新闻:China's telecom gear vendors await Indian move amid perplexity

Still, telecom operators and Chinese telecom gear vendors are unable to sign telecom security agreement with the absence of official telecom security standards.

The Indian government has delayed the clearance of telecom gear sale orders with 25 Chinese vendors since early 2010 due to security concerns from India intelligence department, which are valued at about 2 billion U.S. dollars, said a recent article by Economic Times.

Chinese vendors are not allowed to conduct self-certification in order to sell telecom gears, while western telecom device makers now enjoyed the self-certification mode.

Industry insiders said that some Indian telecom operators like Bharti Airtel had started to place orders from western vendors, posing great pressures to others relying on Chinese vendors.

Nevertheless, an official with the marketing division of Chinese telecom gear vendor UT Starcom said that "the delay of sales orders has been almost resolved and it's not a serious problem."

The official expected that the Indian government could announce the telecom security norms in next week or the week afterwards.