Government extends telecom equipment and mobile phone testing deadline again to August 1

NEW DELHI: The government has once again extended the deadline for mandatory testing and certification of mobile phones and telecom equipment to August 1, 2019. Department of Telecom (DoT) had in 2012 for the first time fixed April 1, 2013 as the deadline for Mandatory testing and Certification of Telecom Equipment (MCTE) and has deferred it many times since then.

“It has now been decided that certification of all telecom equipment under MCTE shall be mandatory with effect from August 1, 2019,” Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), the technical arm of DoT, said in a notice dated March 12.