Entirety reports on February 13, 2019, ANATEL issued the amendment of Annex I of Act No. 209 of January 14, 2019, replacing Table 1, which provides technical requirements for assessing the conformity of the product “Terminal Access Terminal – ETA”. The amendment has the minimum features for the process of assessment showing the Normative Document, Applicable Requirements and Test procedures.
The technologies included in the amendment are as follow:
- Global mobile satellite service – SGMS
- Personal mobile services (All cellular and IoT technologies)
- Mobile services in Point-Multipoint Applications
- Fixed telephones services with wireless access
Is important to remark that for technology Nb-IoT LTE Cat. M1&Nb-IoT Cat. NB1 has been included a testing standard “ETSI TS 136 521-1 V14.4.0 (2017-11) LTE; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Radio transmission and reception; Part 1: Conformance testing (3GPP TS 36.521-1 version 14.4.0 Release 14)”.
At the moment of this notice there is no laboratory that can perform this type of test in Brazil so external reports can be accepted taking into account the following:
- Testing was done within 2 years
- Testing was done by a laboratory accredited by an ILAC member
- The test report must refer to the standards described in the ANATEL requirements