15-08-2021
Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) has stopped issuing Provisional Type Approval certificates and will now only issue final Type Approval certificates. Previously the applicant received a provisional certificate for 6 month before getting permanent certificate Now the applicant will receive directly the permanent certificate. About the provisional certificate already issued, we shall follow the old process until they are eliminated.
05-08-2021
Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru (MTC) issued the Resolution 488-2021-MTC/01. According to this document, the 470-698 MHz frequency band for wireless telecommunication services became available for the unlicensed use. However, the technical characteristics must be the same as for TV White Spaces technologies operating on the 470 MHz to 698 MHz bands that were approved earlier.
Apart from that, the MTC has modified its National Frequency Attribution Plan enabling unlicensed access to the 6 GHz band, where 1200MHz of spectrum in the 5925MHz-7125MHz (6GHz) band was identified for unlicensed Wi-Fi 6E access.
Currently, the technical parameters for the unlicensed use of the 6 GHz band are under consideration. Nevertheless, the unlicensed access to the whole 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi will take Peru to a higher level where ultra-fast Wi-Fi brings new applications and new industries to the market
05-08-2021
National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt (NTRA) approved voice calls via 4G Technology (VoLTE). In fact, VoLTE service has not been applied in Egypt’s market before, while this step came in response to the several requests made by operators to obtain NTRA’s approval on launching VoLTE service for their subscribers. It is worth noting that NTRA approved to start launching this service, after the operators had met all the necessary technical and regulatory requirements.
Source : Official site
04-08-2021
Saudi SASO officially published standard SASO-IEC-62368-1:2020 “Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment – Part 1: Safety requirements” in the end of November 2020 and announced the transition from the Standards SASO-IEC-60950-1 and SASO-IEC-60065 to SASO-IEC-62368-1 for Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment that should be ended on July 1, 2021. However, recently the SASO has notified the postponement of the implementation date of SASO IEC 62368-1:2020. Thus, the new standard will be effective from January 1, 2023.
This national standard is equivalent to IEC 62368-1:2018 standard and was developed as identical to IEC 62368-1:2018. So test reports issued against the requirements of the previous version of the standard SASO IEC 62368-1:2017 (IEC 62368-1:2014) will be accepted until December 30, 2022.
Thus, audio/video and IT/office equipment product such as but not limited to:
Non-professional stand-alone audio products:
Radio
Record players
Disc players
Mp3 players
Speaker systems
Amplifiers
Sound bars (Bluetooth or otherwise)
Other audio products
Non-professional stand-alone video playing and recording systems:
VCD, DVD, Blu-ray players
Digital still and video cameras
Game consoles
Projectors
Videoke/Karaoke multimedia systems
TV decoders and set-top boxes
Consumer desktops and laptop computers, all-in-one PCs
Tablets
Printers/scanners includes office printers, multi-function printers (MFP)
should meet the requirements of SASO IEC 62368-1:2020 and have valid SASO IECEE Recognition Certificate (SIRC) against SASO-IEC-62368-1:2020 requirements in order to obtain the P-CoCs/S-CoCs on SABER Platform from January 2023.
02-08-2021
The ACMA issued the new Australian Radiofrequency Spectrum Plan 2021 (the Spectrum Plan). This Spectrum Plan is developed under section 30 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 and reflects the frequency allocation recommendations of the most recent World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRCs). It revokes the previous Australian Radiofrequency Spectrum Plan 2017.
The Spectrum Plan 2021 is divided into two chapters. Chapter 1 is called “General information” and contains general information on the development and application of the Spectrum Plan and should be used for reference. It consists of 4 parts and provides explanations on the geographic regions and information about the table of frequency band allocations as well as spectrum management in Australia.
Chapter 2 is called “Australian Radiofrequency Spectrum Plan” and includes the table of frequency band allocations and defines the general purposes for which the bands should be used. The Spectrum Plan contains not only domestic but also international footnotes connecting with the arrangements for spectrum management that are necessary for compliance.
Thus, due to the Spectrum Plan people are informed about the services they can operate on each frequency band and rules they must follow as well as the rules aligned with the requirements of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio Regulations.
The original text of the Spectrum Plan 2021 you can find here.
02-08-2020
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday approved the imposition of lockdown measures in the capital region, in a bid to contain the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant and to shield the country’s medical system.
The Manila capital region, a sprawl of 16 cities home to more than 13 million people, will be placed under the tightest quarantine curbs from Aug. 6 to 20, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said in a televised address. “While it is a painful decision, this is for the good of all.” Official Link
02-08-2021
The Government of the Russian Federation issued Resolution 955 that amends Resolution “On market access certification mark” on June 21, 2021.
This CTP mark now should be used for products that successfully pass the mandatory national conformity assessment procedure according to the “Technical Regulation” Federal Law. The national conformity assessment procedure is applicable only when the product is out of EAEU technical regulations requirements.
Before the validity of the Resolution, the CTP mark should be applied only when the product was in the scope of the national technical regulations. However, these regulations have been cancelled once the relevant EAEU technical regulations appeared as they served as the transitional documents that allowed national manufacturers to prepare for the EAEU regulations requirements. Products that were not subject to these national technical regulations fall under the national certification system of Rosstandard (previously, GOST R system) and should bear PCT conformity mark. There were mandatory and voluntary conformity assessment procedures within the national certification system of Rosstandard.
Now products that fall under the mandatory requirements within the national certification system of Rosstandard must bear CTP and not PCT mark. However, according to the Government notice, productions that have been approved before the effectiveness date of these amendments, can continue to enter the Russian market with the PCT mark until the termination of the issued certificates.
The original text of the Resolution you can find here.
01-08-2021
SIRIM QAS International has implemented the certification for Active Indoor Antenna for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in according to MCMC MTSFB TC T014:2017 and MCMC MTSFB TC T013:2019 respectively. Therefore, the importation of the above products into the country shall subject to compliance approval or special approval.
With the above requirements, please be informed that the IT/Networking Module in eComM has been updated with a new module as to ensure application for IT/Networking are fulfils with the new requirements.
Therefore, with effective from 1st August 2021
application for IT/Networking shall be processed as follows:
Application Criteria | New Requirement |
IT/ Networking application submitted before 1st Aug 2021 (Use Old IT/Networking Module) | a) Approved application will be issued with a validity period until 31st July 2021. b) Certificate of Approval (CoA) application is allowed until 31st July 2021, however application submitted after 31st July 2021 will be rejected by the system. |
IT/ Networking application submitted from 1st August 2021 and onwards (Use New IT/Networking Module) | a) Approved application will be issued with a validity period of one (1) year from the date of File Number is generated. b) Certificate of Approval (CoA) application is allowed within the validity period, however application submitted after end of validity period will be rejected by the system |
Source: Official Site
13-07-2020
According to Telecommunication Act 2005 (“The Act”) office Of Regulatory Authority, issue new Trade Mark as a symbol for Type Approval Equipment.
Official Link : Source
18-07-2021
As per Decision No 955 from the Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation, from the 21st of June 2021 the labelling mark for devices subject to GOST R Approval has now been replaced by the Circulation Mark
