CHINA: MIIT Announces Action Plan to Promote Scale Deployment of IPv6
Entirety reports on November 30, 2018, an Action Plan for Promoting the Scale Deployment of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on November 26, 2017. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of […]
VIETNAM: MIC Releases Circular 15/2018/TT-BTTTT to Clear All Conflicts Between Regulations Under PQIR
Entirety reports on November 27, 2018, an official announcement by MIC of Vietnam regarding the release of the Circular 15/2018/TT-BTTTT, supplementing and amending to Circular 30/2011/TT-BTTTT. The Circular 15/2018/TT-BTTTT has made with the intention to clear all conflicts between regulations in “Product Quality Inspection Registration” (PQIR) process and to be in compliance with Decree 132/2008/ND-CP and Decree 74/2018/ND-CP. […]
MEXICO: DOF Announces New Regulation for Batteries and Primary Batteries Imported or Merchandised in the Mexican National Territory
Entirety reports on November 20, 2018, an official announcement by the DOF of Mexico regarding NOM-212-SCFI-2017 (Mexican Official Standard) establishing and defining features for batteries, technological classification by the electrochemical system, maximum permissible limits of cadmium and mercury and labeling. The NOM-212-SCFI-2017 is applicable to batteries and primary batteries imported or merchandised in the Mexican National Territory as […]
INDONESIA: SDPPI Accepts EMC Test Report from Non-Accredited International Test Lab
Entirety reports on November 19, 2018, the following news: SDPPI issued a new policy regarding the EMC test reports. Due to the overcapacity and recent problems at Indonesian test labs, where EMC test takes extremely long lead time, SDPPI decided to accept EMC test report from all international Labs, including EMC report from test labs […]
ARGENTINA: ENACOM Updates Low Power Device Regulation
On October 25th, 2018, ENACOM updated regulations linked to Low Power Devices modifying “Dedicated Frequency Bands to be used by Low-Power Devices.” The technical standard ENACOM-Q2-60.14 V18.1 “Low-Power Devices” was approved and revoked Resolution ENACOM No. 6.639/2017. Furthermore, the technical standard serves as a new local SRD standard. The main differences between version 17.1 are as […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Updates Regulation on EMC Testing Procedures for Restricted Radiation Transceivers
On August 27th, 2018 the National Telecommunication Agency (ANATEL) of Brazil updated its regulation on EMC testing procedures for Restricted Radiation Transceivers that are in force from November 7, 2018. HIGHLIGHTS For certificate renewals/maintenance process there is no need to add or comply with this tests if and only if the initial certification was SUBMITTED previous […]
Mexico: IFT Issues the 2019 Annual Program for Use and Exploitation of Frequency Bands
On November 12, 2018, the Mexican Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) published on the Official Gazette of Federation its Annual Program Plan for 2019 with the purpose to determine the Frequency Bands that will be open for bidding or that may be directly assigned and integrated with services that will be provided through such frequencies of frequency bands, […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Issues Public Consultation to Revise The Regulation on Conditions of Use of the 3.5 GHz Radio Frequency Band
On November 6, 2018, ANATEL of Brazil opened a public consultation regarding the conditions of use of the 3.5 GHz bands. The main objective is to submit to comments and suggestions from the general public, the Regulatory Impact Analysis Report concerning the draft revision of the regulations associated with the 3,400 MHz to 3,600 MHz […]
ARGENTINA: ENACOM Establishes Share-use for Radio Electric Frequencies
On September 4, 2018, ENACOM of Argentina established share-use for radio electric frequencies in the Argentinian territory. The Resolution comes to force starting March 6, 2019. As it modifies bandwidth extremes, uses and applications, and maximum allowed powers with respect to current testing standards, it is assumed that these will be modified to suit the resolution. […]
BRAZIL: ANATEL Publishes Consultation to Amend the Regulation on Restricted Radio-communication Equipment
ANATEL wants to amend the current Regulation of Restricted Radio-communication Equipment approved by Resolution 680, of June 27, 2017. The change would impact few products like wireless chargers and equipment for Cable Location in the bands between 90 kHz and 110 kHz since currently this band (90-110 kHz) is not allowed to be used in […]