Raising Standardization Culture in Developing Countries

1. Regional ITU Workshop on Bridging the standardization Gap(Algiers, Algeria, 26-28 September 2011 ) Raising Standardization Culture in Developing Countries Tarek Moh. El Ebiary, Director, Type Approval NTRA, Egypt

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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),

6. 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)

7. 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.

8. III. Egypt Best Practices (continued) • 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;

9. 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);

10. 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 #, …

11. III. Egypt Best Practices (continued)

12. 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;

13. 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:

14. III. Egypt Best Practices (continued) SS7 SS7 SS7 MSC MSC 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

15. 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.

16. 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

17. Thank you for your attention Any Questions? telebiary@tra.gov.eg