India's Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) has launched a series of public consultations inviting comments on several telecom technical standards and essential requirements, in order to ensure they are sound and applicable. Industry experts and stakeholders are invited to submit feedback before the stated deadlines.

Items proposed for adoption as national standards

Comments due: 19 January 2026.

1. Adoption of the TSDSI standard on a common data payload for adaptive traffic control systems and other intelligent transport system products as a national standard.

2. Adoption of the oneM2M documents transposed by TSDSI (Release 2A, Release 3 addendum and Release 4) as national standards.

3. Adoption of the 3GPP Releases 15 to 18 standards transposed by TSDSI as national standards.

Targeted consultations on essential requirements

Essential requirements for IP terminals, deadline 12 January 2026.

Essential requirements for LAN switches, deadline 3 January 2026.

Other standards and guidance under revision

Comments due: 23 December 2025.

1. Draft generic requirements for WLAN interworking gateways and network functions in 4G and 5G systems.

2. Revision of associated annex documents in line with the revised essential requirements for IoT devices.

3. Revision of the essential requirements standard for environmental monitoring terminal equipment.

4. Revision of the essential requirements standard for feedback devices.

5. Revision of the essential requirements standard for IoT gateways.

6. Test guidance for small 5G core networks.

The consultations are intended to gather views from industry and experts so that the standards and requirements are sound and applicable. Stakeholders may submit comments before the respective deadlines.