The Indian mobile operators are rarely in full harmony with the country’s regulator or Department of Telecom (DoT) and their latest disputes focus on homegrown equipment procurement, and on spectrum for private networks. Successive government initiatives, the latest being ‘Make in India’, have encouraged or even mandated operators to buy a rising percentage of their equipment from local suppliers, or at least international vendors that manufacture in India. These rules have resulted in investment, by various Indian industrial firms, in homegrown telecoms gear, though this has not yet resulted in a local ecosystem on anywhere close to the scale government ministers want. The most recent move has come from Tejas Networks, part of the huge Tata Group and a prominent…