The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has
warned that the sell of unapproved telecom devices within its
jurisdiction attracts N100,000 or jail term of not less than a year, reports DigitalSENSE Business News.
Confirming this to DigitalSENSE Business News at the NCC sensitization workshop on
“Equipment Type Approval: A mandatory tool for safe telecommunications
industry” the Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah pointed out that
NCC Act of 2003 empowers the Commission under section 132 to carry out type approval of all communications options for all the
Nigerian communication market.
“We also have in our type approval regulation that
the commission has actually drafted which is also on the website to serve as a
guidance on what are required and what to be done when it comes to type
approval. We also have type approval guidelines which are the legal basis for
which type approval is been carryout by the NCC of all the legal provision and
it will help in the act.
As he told DigitalSENSE Business News that
“Licenses service for facilities providers equipments manufacturers or
suppliers shall obtained type approval committed to obtained their
communications equipment or facilities trials of installation of services to
Nigerian.
“A person who sells or install any communication
equipment or facilities without first obtaining commission’s type approval get
their certificate for committing an offence and unconventional for fine of not
appealing a Hundred Thousand Naira or a replacement for a term not including
one year or to also certifying so it is quite region offence to actually
reinforce or sell equipment that are not type approved,” he said.
The EVC also explained what is type approval,
saying that it’s a technical evaluation of equipment against prescribed
specifications with the objective of determining it conformance to those
specification they had international center that they are been produce for all
kinds of equipment and devices and they are number of international standard
body of type approved that it may be caused on the occasion to install their
international standard for the key actually are on the device to those feed of
standard or in other to take the procedure in technical making apply telecom
before they can install interconnected to the public network for those of the purpose
network communication.
NCC, he said, actually carryout the intelligence
before publishing equipment for type approval, so as to ensure maximum interoperability
and affordability to consumers, maintaining that NCC type approval standards
was based on international standards, even as they application from equipment
vendor, OEM, network operators, operator approval consultancy as well as
accredited agents.
“So, anybody can apply for the equipment once the
device is ready and intended for the Nigeria market,” he said.
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