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Under this category siting clearance applications are received when the same or another applicant desires to put additional antenna on the tower below the earlier approved Antennae Siting Clearance. Application received under additional antenna category is accorded WPC acceptance no. after submission of application. Acceptance number itself is treated as Siting Clearance and no Siting Clearance letters etc. are required to be issued to the applicant.

Once grant of frequency is agreed by WPC wing and decision letter is issued, SACFA application may be filed online with the approved technical parameters mentioned in decision letter.

SACFA. Standing Advisory Committee for Frequency Allocation (India)

The applicant must be an Indian Company, registered under the Companies Act, 2013. UL and UL(VNO) can be applied by any  Indian companies except for Access Service Cat B authorisation under UL(VNO) which can be applied for by Indian companies, partnership firm, proprietorship firm, Shops and establishment and legal person.

The Applicant companies desirous of getting the Access Service Authorization under Unified License/UL-VNO may submit the application on portal i.e. https://saralsanchar.gov.in. The Applicant companies are required to do a one-time registration on the portal.

The updated version of UL/UL(VNO) license agreement is available on DoT Website. It can also be found at below mentioned links:

UL - https://dot.gov.in/circulars/license-agreement-unified-license-vno

VNO - https://dot.gov.in/circulars/license-agreement-unified-license

 

Yes, part codes of lower configuration card(s), if its higher configuration card(s) is/are tested or part codes of conformal-coated parts/chassis may be mentioned by the applicant in the ''Remarks'' column of the BoM file of a single-chassis product submitted for MTCTE Certification. A self-declaration in this respect may be submitted by the applicant that conformance to ER is not affected by this.

Only those SFP(s) may be mentioned in BoM file, which have been used for testing of respective optical interface and evaluation may be done accordingly.

In this regard TEC has issued clarification vide No. 6-6/2021-TC/TEC (Pt. II) dated 16.11.2022 which is uploaded on MTCTE portal, kindly refer the same. Download File

ransceivers such as SFPs which are required during interface testing for telecom/network products namely Routers, LAN Switch, PON Devices etc. are not covered under MTCTE.

Any number of associated models can be included in the test report along with main model subject to their verification by the test lab as per MTCTE procedure. The limit on 9 associated models is for applying on the MTCTE portal in a single application. For remaining associated models, a separate MTCTE application may be submitted with same main model.

In case the minor hardware / software changes in the certified product does not affect the conformance to approved Essential Requirements (ERs) as mentioned in clause 10.2.1 and 10.7 of MTCTE procedure, a self-declaration by the certificate holder may be submitted to TEC mentioning the existing and the revised hardware/software version and declaring that the conformance to approved Essential Requirements (ERs) is not affected by this revision. TEC will acknowledge the same.

No, the validity of regular certificate of 10 years will be applicable only to MTCTE certificates issued w.e.f. 01.07.2022.

No, the addendum notification 6-6/2021-TC/TEC released on 19th April 2022 is applicable in case where the applicant has submitted their product for MTCTE testing to ILAC lab after 22.09.2021 i.e. first date of notifications of phase-III and IV and his test report was still not issued before 31.01.2022 i.e. the date when 7 products under phase-III were removed from ILAC relaxation.

The “Country of Origin" is as per the criteria defined under Custom Rules. 'Country of Manufacturing' refers to the place where the Telecom product under certification against product model number given above is manufactured/assembled as complete unit only.

Number of associated models including the main model is restricted to 10 numbers.

This facility is not available, as of now.