In 2010, which of the following was appointed by the government as a consultant to Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore to help develop software for testing telecom equipment for the presence of spyware that could be a possible security threat?

BT, formerly known as British Telecom, was on June 3, 2010 appointed consultant to Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore to help develop software for testing telecom equipment for the presence of for spyware or malware that could be a possible security threat.

Once the laboratory is set up by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), India will have the capacity to test equipment, instead of depending on global testing agencies.

The development comes at a time when Chinese telecom equipment providers, Huawei and ZTE, are facing security issues in launching their products in India following a home ministry directive.