Raising Standardization Culture in Developing Countries

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Regional ITU Workshop on Bridging the standardization Gap(Algiers, Algeria, 26-28 September 2011 )

Tarek Moh. El Ebiary,

Director, Type Approval

NTRA, Egypt

Agenda

Counterfeit & Non-complying Equipment;
Impact on ICT market;
NTRA best practices curbing low quality products;
Conclusions;
Recommendations.

I. Counterfeit & Non-complying Equipments

The legal definition under trademark law describes counterfeit product as a product bearing a mark that is identical with or substantially indistinguishable from a genuine registered trademark

I. Counterfeit & Non-complying Equipments (continued)

Not only Counterfeit equipments & trademarks have reached the ICT sector, but also “COPY “ , “FAKE” & Non-complying products.

“Exact Copy”“misleading appearance”

Low quality materials
Avoid key manufacturing steps

Reduce Cost

II. Impact on ICT market

Consumer exposed to money, health & safety risks;
Non-competitive environment:

Disincentive for investors, International & Domestic, affecting Trade & Manufacturing,
Losing thousands of jobs,
Reduction of Tax revenues.

Extra burden on Service providers;

QoS, After Sales Services,
Ex: Mobile phone handover 900/1800Mhz-(2009),

III. Egypt Best Practices

2003: Telecom Act: Considering curbing counterfeit & non-complying ICT products

Monitoring Importation & Customs --->Issuing Clearance permit; (Articles 48 - 77)
Monitoring Compliance & Quality ---> Issuing Type Approval Certificate; (Articles 44 -48)

III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

Equipments compliance achieved through:

Declaration of Conformity certificate “DoC” or “FCC ID”, (USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia), (light regime);
Test reports from accredited international test labs over the 5 continents, (Other countries not including China), (tight regime);
Verification of Conformity certificate (VoC) & Pre-shipment verification from NTRA accredited labs in China, (Special regime);

ITU / ETSI / CENELEC / IEC standards adopted.

Jan 2005: Labeling requirements directives:

Mandatory FCC-ID / CE-NBID Certification Marks;
More Involvement of Certification bodies;

July 2005: NTRA Internationally Accredited Test Labs & Certification Bodies published on NTRA website;

2006: NTRA ICT TE Test Lab:

Wireless TE Test Set (3 MHz to 6 GHZ) Signalling test Mobile GSM 2G/3G,CDMA 2000 FWT, Cordless Phones .9/2.4/5.8 GHz, HF/VHF/UHF Transceivers);
1.88-1.9Ghz DECT phones;
Analogue wired phones;
EMC Test system (Immunity/Emission, Semi-anechoic chamber) (RFP – Jan 2012);

2007: Chinese products special arrangement:

CE Verification of Conformity certificate / NTRA Accredited labs in China;
( BV-ADT, CTTL, Intertek, SGS, TUV )

Based on full testing or issued based on technical evidence
submitted from an internationally recognized lab.

Shipment verification / NTRA accredited Labs in China;

Manufacturer, importer, Model #, Serial, Qty, Cartons #, …

2008: New Market Surveillance Department:

Market Surveillance Plus Type Approval;
Samples collected from market, Cooperation with Telecom Police;
Market Surveillance policies, strategies, databases, law enforcement, sales bans, fees & fines – Coordination with the German regulator;

2010: GSMA Agreement:

White list Weekly update IMEI TAC White list;
Combat handset theft issue;
Illegal, Fake, NULL & Cloned IMEIs;
Health & Safety concerns;
5–8% of Handsets developing countries;
3.5M one illegal IMEI (13579024681122)
0.1M Null,0.35M zeros, .5M Fake, .25M Cloned

2010: Central EIR IMEI database solution:

SS7

MSC

Central EIR IMEI database solution

NTRA ‘Master’ EIR“NTRA database”

Develop National Black list

Management of all EIR data

Developed International White List ranges

System LVL

Lists & configuration data

GSMA Global Database (GSMA Agreement)

Master/Slave relationship (download-reporting)

Vodafone ‘Slave’ EIR

Etisalat ‘Slave’ EIR

MobiNil ‘Slave’ EIR

Network LVL

Operation / Authentication

Check IMEI requests with Black, White responses

Vodafone network

Etisalat network

MobiNil network

IV. Conclusions

There is market demand for these products due to:

Consumer Standardization awareness & culture, (20-25%);
Consumer economic status:

Low cost / unreliable operational,
High cost / reliable fully functioning,
Small/medium companies,
Ex: Cisco Router 1721,

Counterfeit 250$ , Genuine 1000$

Very weak local manufacturing of ICT TE;

Reasonable prices for quality products,
Support & perform consumer awareness campaigns.

IV. Recommendations

Adopt balanced Government Policies towards encouraging ICT Eq. manufacturing;

Creating manufacturing Competitive environment;
Subsidizing initiation of ICT Eq. Test labs;
Proactive testing training activities;

Aggressive Market surveillance activities;
Raising consumer awareness through campaigns & introducing Certification Marks,
Regulators R&D departments to work & coop with research & academic institutes,
Membership & participation in international & regional standardization meetings, workshops; STGs