Type approval for telecommunications equipment in Philippines is regulated by the National Telecommunications Commission. Pursuant to Republic Act No. 7925, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is the government agency responsible for regulating and supervising the provision of public telecommunications services and managing the use of radio frequency spectrum in the Philippines. Thus, the NTC Office is the regulatory body that oversees and controls all telecommunications devices entering the Philippines.

The NTC performs its supervision and control functions by ensuring that all telecommunications devices imported and marketed in the Philippines complies with technical standards established by the NTC Office. Through the type approval process, the NTC will issue type approval certificates for every telecommunications device that has met established technical standards and safety requirements in the Philippines.

Apart from conducting the type approval function, the NTC Office also has several other tasks, as follows:

  • Grants licenses or permits to purchase, possess, construct, operate and maintain radio stations.
  • Allocate and assign the use of radio frequencies spectrum.
  • Type approve or type-accept all types radio communications equipment.
  • Conduct radio communication’s examination and issue radio operators certificate.
  • Prepare, plan and conduct studies for policy and regulatory purposes.
  • Monitor the operation of all telecommunications and broadcast activities.

The NTC Philippines has essentially divided the type approval certification under three classifications: RCE, CPE, and GEC. Here are the different of each classification for Philippines type approval certification:

  • Radio Communications Equipment (RCE): This classification is for radio communications equipment with radio frequency features includes Bluetooth, Wifi, wireless charging, and other short-range device (SRD) features.
  • Customer Premises Equipment (CPE): This classification is for customer premises equipment and used to access public telecommunications networks includes mobile phones, GPON/EPON devices, corded telephones, and fax machines.
  • Grant Equipment Conformity (GEC): This classification is for telecommunications devices exhibit both RCE and CPE functionalities includes smartphones, 2G/3G/4G LTE/5G NR wireless access points, and WWAN-enabled SRDs.

Why We Care

Processing the type approval for telecommunications devices is mandatory in almost every country. Many manufacturers sometimes experience difficulties when it comes to communicating with local regulatory bodies or agencies in certain countries. Limited knowledge and language barriers are common issues that manufacturers deal when seeking type approval certification.

Due to that reason, the existence of a type approval service company is important for manufacturers to help them for processing the type approval in certain countries, especially when they need to process multiple countries in the same time. Dimulti with more than 17 years experience for Indonesia type approval and is now ready to assist any manufacturer requiring type approval in the Philippines. So, feel free to drop an email to info@narmadi.com in case you have any questions about Philippines type approval.