The Association of Unified Service Providers of India (AUSPI) has written to the DoT complaining about the delay in submission of comments by the COAI to DoT over resolving the issue of ban on import of Chinese telecom gear.

The DDG (AS) had asked for comments from AUSPI and COAI with respect to additional conditions to be included in model template of agreement between the licences and the third party.

According to AUSPI while it has submitted bids on June 22, 2010 the COAI is yet to submit its comments which eventually is delaying the resolving of the issue of import ban on Chinese telecom gear.

AUSPI said that for CDMA operators it was very important for the issue to be resolved as there was significant dependence of the operators on Chinese-made equipment. According to AUSPI this was creating a non level playing field and causing very serious QoS issues and capacity crunch in the networks.

“It is requested that the model template may kindly be finalized immediately without waiting for the comments from COAI and allow our members immediately to import equipments,” said AUSPI.