Ericsson broadband project offshore to India

4092013

 Ericsson is sending work on a broadband project offshore to India.

Chinese company Huawei a telecom giant was banned from building or supplying equipment to the national network because of security concerns.

The Ericsson work being sent offshore to India concerns integration work on the fixed-wireless part of the network while the work sent to China concerned radiofrequency design, the report said.

A well-placed Ericsson source said that the work was previously being done in Australia. NBN Co said it was aware of the offshoring.

Ericsson, the Swedish multinational forecast that 29 workers in India would be working on the NBN by December, saving it about five million dollars.

The Ericsson source said the Swedish firm was attempting to step up offshoring, recently bringing more than 15 Indian workers to Australia to learn about design on the NBN’s fixed-wireless network, the report added. media agencie