MTCTE Certification Issued for Virtualized 5G Core Nodes in India
1. August 2024The Ministry of Telecommunications and Telecommunication Engineering Centre have announced the MTCTE Certification of 5G Core Nodes. The authority has approved the issuance of provisional MTCTE certificates, which will be valid for two years. This applies specifically to fully virtualized or software-based 5G core nodes. Typically, telecommunication technology requires TEC certification to be approved for import and sale in India.
Applicants must upload a Self-Declaration for Conformity against the applicable parameters of the essential requirement (ER) according to the authority. These parameters will be treated as exempted. Additionally, applicants must note in the remarks column of the bill of materials (BoM) that these are completely virtualized or software-based applications/products.
The TEC certification has been mandatory since April 2019. Every year the Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC) expands the certification catalog and adds more telecom products. See the list of TEC standards here.
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