{"id":986057,"date":"2026-01-17T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986057"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:43:20","slug":"did-cisco-get-a-sweet-deal-karnataka-government-backs-kswan-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/did-cisco-get-a-sweet-deal-karnataka-government-backs-kswan-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Cisco get a sweet deal? Karnataka government backs KSWAN tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Allegations of irregularities and potential favoritism have surfaced in the tender process for the Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN) upgrade, with industry stakeholders accusing the Centre for e-Governance (CeG) of tailoring specifications to favour a single Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). <\/p>\n<p>The controversy centres on tender reference CEG\/2025-26\/IND0043 and its subsequent re-issue. Critics claim that process has been manipulated to create a de facto single-vendor scenario, raising concerns over transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Allegations of irregularities and potential favoritism have surfaced in the tender process for the Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN) upgrade, with industry stakeholders accusing the Centre for e-Governance (CeG) of tailoring specifications to favour a single Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). The controversy centres on tender reference CEG\/2025-26\/IND0043 and its subsequent re-issue. Critics claim that process has been manipulated to create a de facto single-vendor scenario, raising concerns over transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}