MHA official finds cell signals from China in Northeast

New Delhi: A Union home ministry official was in for a surprise on a trip to the remote areas of Arunachal Pradesh when he could not use his mobile phone as it picked up signals only of Chinese telecom firms on the other side of the border.

The officer says he could not make any call through Indian networks available in the northeastern part of the country.

The officer wrote to the Telecom, saying private telecom operators had not installed towers in the rural Northeast and alleged that some companies, ‘influenced’ Chinese telecom firms, did not want such facilities to be set up the India-China border.