CDMA lobby, AUSPI has asked the telecom regulator, TRAI to include Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei in a meeting called by the regulator to discuss the issues related to recently announced 2G spectrum pricing and allocation.

TRAI has called representatives from Ericsson, NSN, Qualcomm and professors from IIT Chennai, Mumbai, Kharagpur, Hyderabad and IISs Bangalore for the meet scheduled on June 05.

"We strongly oppose the discussions with selected telecom vendors like Nokia and Ericsson who are major telecom network equipment providers to the old GSM operators like Bharti, Vodafone and Idea and they may not be able to give any independent view of the issue under discussion -- 2G pricing," said AUSPI.

"Nokia and Ericsson have vested interest of supplying equipment to the old GSM operators and their presence as well as their views will create a feeling of discrimination because of their vested interest in the supply of equipment to the operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea," AUSPI said.

"We, therefore, request that either the Chinese vendors -- Huawei and ZTE are invited to attend the TRAI meeting or none of the vendors should be invited including Ericsson, Nokia or Qualcomm," it said.