Temporary Exemption granted for Telecom Equipment under MTCTE
17. April 2025The Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) under India’s Department of Telecommunications has issued a notification granting a temporary exemption from the submission of test reports for specific technical parameters listed under multiple Essential Requirements (ERs) within the Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecom Equipment (MTCTE) framework. These exemptions, effective until June 30, 2025, or until further notice, apply to various telecom equipment categories such as Mobile Radio Trunking Systems (MRTS), GSM, WCDMA, LTE repeaters, VHF/UHF radio systems, ADSL/VDSL/SHDSL interfaces, optical fiber cables, and satellite communication terminals. Affected parameters include frequency bands, power outputs, interface specifications, and other conformance criteria, typically mandated under national and international standards like ETSI, 3GPP, ITU-T, and IEC. Telecom Equipment usually require TEC certification in order to be approved for import and sale in India.
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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