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The last 4 of April, the regulatory body in Singapore (The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)) reviewed the Requirements for Telecommunication Equipment Labels and Advertisements.
Changes are to introduce the use of electronic compliance label, effective from the last 4 April on.
“The use of electronic compliance labels on registered telecommunication equipment is now allowed. Telecommunication equipment dealers licensed by IDA, such as suppliers or manufacturers, are permitted to display the compliance label on the equipment’s built-in display screen or in the softcopy of the equipment’s instruction manual, as an alternative to traditional sticker labels. Licensees will have to ensure that the equipment packaging contains information for consumers about where to locate the electronic compliance label for verification.”
The new requirements for telecommunication equipment labels and advertisements can be accessed and read in the following link at IDA’s website.
The last 2 of April, the Ministry of Communications (MoC) in Israel issued an updated of the technical specification document on the general use of the frequencies in 2.4 and 5 GHz.
Main change is that the previous mandatory requirement of WiFi alliance certificate for 802.11n equipments has been removed from the updated regulation.
So now, 802.11n equipments are easier to be type approved by MoC, just submitting ETSI or FCC test reports.
The new regulation on the general use of the frequencies in 2.4 and 5 GHz is available in Hebrew in the following link at the MoC’s website.
With effect from 1 April 2012, the functions and responsibilities of the Broadcasting Authority have been merged with those of the Telecommunications Authority to form the Communications Authority (CA), a unified regulatory body for the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors.
The Office of the Communications Authority, an executive arm of the CA, has also been set up by combining the Office of the Telecommunications Authority and the relevant divisions of the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority.
The new related links to their websites are:
Pursuant to the Communications Authority Ordinance (Cap 616), with effect from 1 April 2012, all duties and powers of the Telecommunications Authority (TA) are conferred on the Communications Authority (CA), and all duties and powers of the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) are conferred on the Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA), the executive arm of the CA.
CA is a unified regulatory body overseeing the converging telecommunications and broadcasting sectors.
The Authority in Qatar (The Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology, ictQATAR) issued on March 14th, 2012 the Radio Spectrum Policy.
The aim of the Policy is the managing of the country’s spectrum resources. It balances the allocation of spectrum between the public and private sectors, and includes radio spectrum allocation and national frequency allocation.
Beyond the radio spectrum and frequency allocation component, the Radio Spectrum Policy also details radio spectrum licensing requirements, spectrum fees and billing, and monitoring and policy enforcement stipulations.
The Radio Spectrum Policy can be read at this link.
On 5 March 2012, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) launched an announcement about the new single label is proposed to be started on 1 July 2012.
The aim is to unify the three existing compliance marks (C-Tick, A-Tick and RCM) into a single compliance mark—the RCM. This single label will show a device’s compliance with all applicable ACMA regulatory arrangements (telecommunications, radiocommunications, EMC and EME).
In a first stage, these changes will start on 1 July 2012 thought this date could be delayed.
From 1 July 2012 on, all new suppliers must register on the new database and use the RCM mark. On the other hand, there will be a three-year transition period for current suppliers. These suppliers will have three years to register on the new database and start using the RCM. They will be permitted to label devices with the C-Tick or A-Tick until 30 June 2015.
Finally, all devices that are labelled with the C-Tick or A-Tick before 30 June 2015 will not need to be relabelled.
From 1 July 2015 on, all suppliers who are required to label their devices must register on the new database and use the RCM.
The complete notice can be read at the following link at ACMA’s website.
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