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The Indian government's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) depends on the Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC). TEC's primary function is to assist in developing and implementing various guidelines and regulations that ensure the responsible and secure use of emerging technologies in the telecommunications industry.

Initially voluntary in 1991, TEC certification became mandatory in 2019 under the law No. 10-1/2017-IT/TEC/ER, which introduced the Mandatory Testing Certification of Telecommunication Equipment (MTCTE) law incrementally.

In India, TEC serves as the authority for certifying telecommunication equipment, following the stringent standards set by the MTCTE program.

There are three types of specifications for telecom equipment quality measures:

Generic Requirements (GRs)

Interface Requirements (IRs)

Service Requirements (SRs)

Note: The issuance of TEC Certification can take up to 30 days from the application date, depending on the product category, testing requirements, and other factors.

Here are some general items that require TEC Certification:-

Radio broadcast receivers

HF Radio

Mobile Radio trunking system

LAN Switch

Smart Camera

Soft Switch

Know How To Get MTCTE Certification In India

Mandatory Testing And Certification of Telecom Equipment. This is what MTCTE Certification stands for. This is for the uninitiated. The Telecommunication Engineering centre or TEC is a regulatory body for telecom products. It is also the technical body behind the telecom products. TEC offer the standards, against which various parameters are set. You would have probably come across several telecom products that abide by it. It also acts as the body that certifies telecom products. Many telecom products occupying a pie in the Indian market work as per the guidelines, that TEC sets.

Explaining MTCTE

All the telecom equipment that is present in the Indian market, is under the directives of the Indian Telegraph Rules, 2017. Every telecom equipment that exists in the Indian market has to undergo mandatory testing before, it is released in the Indian market. No matter, if the product is going for sale or is being imported, it has to abide by these rules. Mandatory Testing And, Certification of Telecom Equipment covers 46 different types of telecom products. Moreover, there are various other types of products under these categories that are divided into 9 divisions, under TEC.

The governing body tests the telecom products to check their conformity to the existing guidelines. TEC issues the certificates. Companies which make such telecom products need to submit an application for certification, online. Thereafter, the other procedures follow. Moreover, most of the manufacturers need to know about the guidelines. You need to know, what all the MTCTE covers.