On September 27, 2023, the Indian Telecommunication Engineering Centre issued notification No. 5-2/2021-TC/TEC/172, which postponed mandatory certification date for 32 products (ERs) covered under phase-III & IV of MTCTE from 01.10.2023 to 01.01.2024
In partial modification to this office notification no. 5-2/2021-TC/TEC/164 dated 23.06.2023 w.r.t. the testing and certification of telecommunication equipment under Phase-III & Phase-IV of MTCTE regime, as provisioned in Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Rules 2017, the following amendments are hereby notified with immediate effect as mentioned below:
Extension of date of mandatory certification of 32 products (ERs) covered under MTCTE phase-III and IV by three months i.e. from 01.10.2023 to 01.01.2024. The list of 32 products is placed at Annexure-I.
Further, all other terms & conditions including mandatory date of other 12 products, details etc. mentioned in said notification dated 23.06.2023 shall remain unchanged.
Annexure-I
List of 32 products (ERs) under phase-III & IV of MTCTE with mandatory
certification date as 01.10.2023
S.No | ER/Product | Notified in Phase |
1. | Equipments Operating in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Band | |
2. | IoT Gateway | Phase-III |
3. | Tracking Device | Phase-III |
4. | Smart Electricity Meter | Phase-III |
5. | End Point Device for Environmental Monitoring | Phase-III |
6. | DSL Equipments | Phase-IV |
7. | Signalling Gateway | Phase-IV |
8. | Session Border Controller | Phase-IV |
9. | Softswitch | Phase-IV |
10. | Media Gateway | Phase-IV |
11. | Precision Timing Protocol Grand Master Equipment | Phase-IV |
12. | LAN Switch | Phase-IV |
13. | Router | Phase-IV |
14. | Infiniband Switch | Phase-IV |
15. | IP Multimedia Conferencing Equipment | Phase-IV |
16. | IP Security Equipment | Phase-IV |
17. | Conferencing Equipment | Phase-IV |
18. | Transmission Terminal Equipment-2 (DWDM, Digital Cross Connect) | Phase-IV |
19. | Mobility Management Entity (MME) | Phase-IV |
20. | Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)/Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) | Phase-IV |
21. | Base Station Controller (BSC)/Radio Network Controller (RNC) | Phase-IV |
22. | Cell Broadcast Centre (CBC) | Phase-IV |
23. | Gateway Mobile Location Centre (GMLC) | Phase-IV |
24. | Home Location Register (HLR)/Authentication Centre(AUC)/Home Subscriber Server (HSS) | Phase-IV |
25. | Mobile Switching Centre (MSC)/MSC-Server (MSC-S) Gateway MSC (GMSC)/Gateway MSC-Server (GMSC-S) including Visitor Location Register (VLR) | Phase-IV |
26. | OTA and DM or FOTA | Phase-IV |
27. | Service Control Point (SCP) | Phase-IV |
28. | Operation Maintenance Support (OMC)/Element Management System (EMS)/ Network Management System (NMS)/ Operation Support System (OSS) | Phase-IV |
29. | Serving Gateway (S-GW)/Packet Gateway (P-GW) | Phase-IV |
30. | Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) | Phase-IV |
31. | Serving Mobile Location Centre (SMLC) or eSMLC | Phase-IV |
32. | Equipment Identity Register (EIR) | Phase-IV |
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