{"id":986406,"date":"2026-01-20T07:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986406"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:27:30","slug":"tcil-bans-cisco-for-two-years-american-vendor-says-in-discussions-with-psu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/tcil-bans-cisco-for-two-years-american-vendor-says-in-discussions-with-psu\/","title":{"rendered":"TCIL bans Cisco for two years; American vendor says in discussions with PSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The state-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) has blacklisted Cisco Systems from participating in its future tenders for two years, alleging the American networking gear vendor of monopolistic and anti-competitive practices that sabotaged the public sector firm\u2019s participation in the Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN) 3.0 programme. <\/p>\n<p>TCIL intimated to Trideeb Roy, MD (public sector), Cisco India &amp; SAARC, in a letter dated January 14, 2026, that the networking firm\u2019s conduct \u201cclearly indicates unfair, exclusionary, and anti-competitive practices, aimed at sabotaging TCIL&#8217;s participation in a public procurement process for unlawful commercial gain\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The state-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) has blacklisted Cisco Systems from participating in its future tenders for two years, alleging the American networking gear vendor of monopolistic and anti-competitive practices that sabotaged the public sector firm\u2019s participation in the Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN) 3.0 programme. TCIL intimated to Trideeb Roy, MD (public sector), Cisco India &amp; SAARC, in a letter dated January 14, 2026, that the networking firm\u2019s conduct \u201cclearly indicates unfair, exclusionary, and anti-competitive practices, aimed at sabotaging TCIL&#8217;s participation in a public procurement process for unlawful commercial gain\u201d.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986406","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=986406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}