DoT Issues Invitation of Expression of Interest for Innovators and Startups

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on February 09, 2022 has issued the Invitation of Expression of Interest for innovators and Startups and MSMEs and other stakeholders who are involved in Research and development in the area of open RAN (Radio Access Network) through setting up of an open RAN Lab in PPP / Collaborative mode.

The key role of the Open RAN Lab will be to extend testing facility for proliferation of Open RAN ecosystem in India. In order to achieve above objective, TEC intends to engage with interested parties having existing testing facility for Open RAN who would be willing to collaborate with TEC through Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)/Agreement in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode to make available their Open-RAN testing infrastructure to other stakeholders working in this area for carrying out Interoperability/Conformance/Functional/Performance/End-to-End Quality of Service(QoS) testing under the overall aegis of TEC (DoT).

Interested parties may submit their proposal through e-mail to Shri Anand Katoch, Director(RC) Telecom Engineering Centre Room no. 606 C, 6th Floor Khurshid Lal Bhawan Janpath, New Delhi-110001, Phone: +91 11 23737409 / +91 9650410580, E-mail: dirrc-tec@gov.in