The Vietnam Telecommunications Authority, recently held a seminar to seek feedback on new draft national technical regulation QCVN 117:202x /BTTTT ahead of submission and formalisation by MIC.
Key features of QCVN 117:202x /BTTTT include:
- Consolidation of RF technical regulations, currently applied separately to 2G, 3G, 4G into one technical regulation applied for mobile terminals. The new regulation will:
- Replace QCVN 12:2015/BTTTT for GSM mobile terminal devices
- Replace QCVN 15:2015/BTTTT for WCDMA mobile terminal devices
- Replace QCVN 117:2018/BTTTT for 4G LTE mobile terminal devices
The new regulations are based on technical requirements of the below CE standards:
- ETSI EN 301 908-1 V11.1.1 (2016-07)
- ETSI EN 301 908-2 V6.2.1 (2013-10)
- ETSI EN 301 908-13 V11.1.1 (2016-07)
- ETSI EN 301 511 V9.0.2 (2003-03)
- ETSI TS 151 010-1 V12.2.0 (2014-11)
- Adding bands for 4G LTE and LTE-Advance, including E-UTRA FDD LTE B1, B3, B5, B7, B8 bands and some Carrier Aggregation E-UTRA bands.
- QCVN 117:202x/BTTTT is expected to be released in 2020 and take effect from July 01, 2021.
- Mobile devices imported (or domestically produced) after the regulation comes into effect must be integrated with E-UTRA (4G) technology and must operate on at least one of the bands specified by the new regulation.
- Mobile devices without 4G technology, imported (or domestically produced) approved ahead of the regulation coming into effect will be allowed to be sold until the existing approval certificate expires
- Devices supporting 4G technology, must also be network compatible and provide IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) service to be able to convert voice calls via VoLTE (Voice over Long-Term Evolution) or VoWifi (Voice over Wi-Fi).
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