Industry lobby COAI has welcomed the initiative to set up first Indian Telecom Standards Development Office. It has congratulated telecom minister Kapil Sibal and DoT for its approval.
 
The formation of TSDSI, had been envisaged by the National Telecom policy 2012 (NTP 2012) and has now been approved by the government. The TSDSI will operate as an industry led autonomous not-for-profit standard development organisation for telecom products and services in India.
 
TSDSI will have effective participation from the Government, R&D centers, telecom service providers, vendors and academia to drive consensus regarding standards that meet national requirements and provide access for all the relevant stakeholders. The working groups will focus initially on energy efficiency, Machine to Machine (M2M), telecom security, terminals and devices- handsets, tablets, dongles, backhaul and data compression technologies.
 
Rajan S Mathews, Director General, COAI stated, “This will also ensure that the country is able to represent it’s requirements at other SDOs internationally and keep abreast of the global technological progress in telecom. We congratulate the government and the TSDSI team and look forward to work closely with them on the said objectives.”