Algiers, Algeria, 26 – 28 September 2011

Raising Standardization Culture in Developing Countries

Tarek Moh. El Ebiary,Director, Type Approval

NTRA, Egypt

Regional ITU Workshop on Bridging the standardization Gap

(Algiers, Algeria, 26-28 September 2011 )

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Agenda

I. Counterfeit & Non-complying Equipment;

II. Impact on ICT market; III. NTRA best practices curbing low

quality products;IV. Conclusions;V. Recommendations.

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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

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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 materialsAvoid key manufacturing steps

Reduce Cost

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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),

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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)

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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.

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III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

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

Jan 2005: Labeling requirements directives:

Mandatory FCC-ID / CE-NBID Certification Marks;

More Involvement of Certification bodies;

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III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

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);

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III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

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 #, …

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III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

Equipment 2004 - 2010

ChineseUSA, EU,

Japan, S.K others 2004 - 20102004 -

20072008 - 2010

2004-2010%

2004 - 2010

Mobile phones 1300 19 341 27.69% 920 20

Fixed Phones 639 281 188 73.40% 156 14

DECT phones 226 8 54 27.43% 145 19

Wireless Eq. 2282 9 260 11.79% 1881 132

Information Technology Eq.

1782 15 267 15.82% 1299 201

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III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

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;

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III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

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:

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III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

NTRA ‘Master’ EIR“NTRA database”

GSMA Global Database (GSMA Agreement)

MSC MSCVodafone network Etisalat network

MobiNil network

Vodafone ‘Slave’ EIR

Etisalat ‘Slave’ EIR

MobiNil ‘Slave’ EIR

Develop National Black list

Management of all EIR data

Check IMEI requests with Black, White responses

Developed International

White List ranges

MSC

SS7 SS7 SS7

Network LVL

Operation / Authentication

System LVL

Lists & configuration

dataMaster/Slave relationship (download-reporting)

Central EIR IMEI database solution

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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.

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IV. RecommendationsAdopt 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

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Thank you for your attention

Any Questions?

telebiary@tra.gov.eg