On June 5, 2013, the Economic Times of India reported that the Department of Telecommunications' (DoT) final draft of the Preferential Market Access (PMA) notification, to be issued in the coming months, contains local sourcing requirements, not only for government entities but also for private telecommunications operators. The rate of local content would progressively increase to 100 per cent, according to the Economic Times.
The official document - the final draft PMA notification - is so farnot publicly available.