Telecommunication Engineering center (TEC) is a regulatory and technical body for telecom products in India representing the interest of the Department of Telecom (DoT) of the Government of India. TEC acts as the standard development body for telecom products’ testing, which develops specifications of common standards for telecom network equipment, services, and interoperability. TEC also functions as a certification body for telecom products that need to be placed in the Indian market, by issuing interface approvals, certificate of approvals, service approvals & type approvals.
Mandatory Testing & Certification Of Telecommunication Equipment (MTCTE)
Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications has notified “Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Rules” in Gazette of India vide G.S.R. 1131(E) PART XI” on 5th September 2017 which prescribes for Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecommunication Equipment. Any telegraph which is used or capable of being used with any telegraph established, maintained or worked under the licence granted by the Central Government in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), shall have to undergo prior mandatory testing and certification in respect of parameters as determined by the telegraph authority from time to time.
Telecommunication Engineering Centre, New Delhi, under Department of Telecommunications (DoT), which, inter alia, is the Telegraph Authority for the purpose of Testing and Certification. The detailed procedure for Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecommunication Equipment (MTCTE) under these rules are notified separately. The testing is to be carried out by Indian Accredited labs and based upon their test reports, certificate shall be issued by TEC.
Surveillance of products under MTCTE is carried out by Licensed Service Area (LSA) field units of Department of Telecommunications.
Objectives of MTCTE
- That any Telecom Equipment does not degrade performance of existing network to which it is connected;
- Safety of the end–users;
- Protection of users and general public by ensuring that radio frequency emissions from equipment do not exceed prescribed standards;
- That telecom equipment complies with the relevant national and international regulatory standards and requirements.
Products Covered Under MTCTE
| Wire Telephone Equipments | G3 Fax Machine |
| Modem | Cordless Telephone |
| ISDN Customer Premises Equipment | Private Automatic Branch Exchange |
| HF Radio | Conferencing and Presentation Equipment |
| Mobile Radio Trunking System | Conferencing Equipment |
| VHF UHF Radio System Equipment’s | Equipment’s Operating in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Band |
| IP Terminal | Point of Sale Devices |
| DSL Equipment’s | Signalling Gateway |
| Session Border Controller | Softswitch |
| Repeater for Cellular Network | Base Station for Cellular Network |
| Compact Cellular Network | Mobile User Equipment |
| PON Family of Broadband Equipment’s | Transmission Terminal Equipment |
| IoT Gateway | Tracking Device |
| Smart Electricity Meter | Smart Watch |
| Smart Camera | Satellite Communication Equipment’s |
| LAN Switch | Router |
| End Point Device for Environmental Monitoring | Feedback Device |
| Media Gateway | Infiniband Switch |
| IP Multimedia Conferencing Equipment | IP Security Equipment |
| Optical Fibre Cable | Precision Timing Protocol(PTP) Grand Master(GM) Equipment |
| PTP PMP Microwave | Mobility Management Entity |
| SGSN/GGSN | BSC RNC |
| Cell Broadcast Centre | GMLC |
| HLR AUC HSS | MSC/MSC-S/GMSC/GMSC-S including VLR |
| OTA and DM/FOTA | SCP |
| 5G Core | OMC/EMS/NMS/OSS |
| S-GW/P-GW | SMSC |
| EIR | SIM |
| SMLC/eSMLC | Server |
| Hypervisor | Radio Broadcast Receiver RBR |
| Optical Fibre (Single Mode) | 5G Core |
| E-band Fixed Radio Relay Systems | Converged Multiservice Application Access Equipmnt |
| Smart Electricity Meter | Satellite Communication Equipment |
| Base Station for Cellular Network for 5G | IP Terminal |
- CE CERTIFICATION
The ‘CE’ abbreviation stands for ‘CommunautéEuropéenne’ French for ‘European Union.’ It also stands for EU-wide standards, which simplify the traffic of European goods
Only safe, flawless, and quality goods should be available on the European market – at least, that’s the objective of the CE mark. The mark proves that the product in question conforms to EU health and safety standards, whether it’s toys or construction machines. Our experts conduct an audit on your
products based on the appropriate EU regulations, such as the low-voltage or electromagnetic compatibility directive. Your CE declaration of conformity means your product now has right of way onto the European market.
Benefits
- Stick to current EU guidelines
- Reduce liability for your company with documented safety standards
- Improve the quality and safety of your products
- Take advantage of short audit times and our extensive experience
Steps for CE Marking
- Our employees determine which directive are applicable to your product.
- We carry out the conformity evaluation procedure and all required audits on your behalf. With a declaration of conformity, you demonstrate that your product complies with all valid regulations, such as health and safety product regulation or medical product regulations.
- Some products or machines rated as dangerous need to have been initialized by an authorized body
- You can now label your product as CE Marking approved.
- UL CERTIFICATION
As a global safety science leader, UL provides the expertise, insights and services necessary to solve critical business challenges. ULwill help you to achieve your safety, security and sustainability goals, meet quality and performance expectations, manage risk and achieve regulatory compliance.
UL comprehensive services include certification of personnel, products, facilities, processes and systems to applicable standards and requirements. UL certification can help you identify and close regulatory gaps, confirm compliance, and maintain your certifications. They can assist in sustaining best practices across your organization and value network.
UL stands for underwriter laboratories, also known as the UL mark and considered a safety organization. Underwriter Laboratories is a third-party certification company, and its major function is to certify the product to protect the world and provide a safer place for both workers and consumers. They also set industry-wide standards on new products. UL testing assures that product is safe to use.
UL certification deals in:-
- Facility Certification: UL’s facility certifications offerings include digital security services, food safety and supplier audits, as well as medical equipment and device testing. They can review plans, perform on-site evaluations to verify compliance with installation codes, conduct vital checks for critical safety issues, and assess the performance of building products and components
- Personnel Certification: UL’s personnel certification helps to empower practitioners with the real-world qualifications needed to perform their work safely and effectively, based on an industry accepted and standardized set of skills that companies and consumers can trust.
- Process Certification: UL will work with you to help ensure that your business processes meet applicable standards and requirements. They can help you identify and close regulatory gaps, confirm compliance, and sustain best practices across your organization and value network
- Product Certification: UL certifications demonstrate that your products have been tested to applicable standards. UL’s recognized regulatory expertise provides critical credibility to authorities and the marketplace. Bring your products to market more efficiently and clearly differentiate them on crowded shelves with certification from the safety science leader
- System Certification: Individual products or processes may work correctly when tested individually, but bringing them together can cause unexpected challenges. We’ll help you mitigate risk and protect brand reputation by evaluating a collection of products and processes, both individually and as a collection, to identify and correct potential problems before they occur.
TUV CERTIFICATION
TÜV SÜD certification marks and certificates represent third-party endorsement by a globally renowned organisation. It is a mark of distinction that serves as excellent marketing tools, enhancing the value of your brand and inspiring greater confidence among your business partners and end users. Around the world, the TÜV SÜD logo is widely recognised and respected as a trusted symbol of quality, safety and sustainability.
A TUV certification means a sampling of the product has been tested for safety and found to meet the minimum requirements of the German Equipment and Product Safety Act. If you’ve ever looked for outdoor lighting, you’ve probably looked for a UL wet location safety rating. Similar to the UL acronym for Underwriters Laboratories, TUV stands for TechnischerÜberwachungsverein (or Technical Inspection Association in English). GS is an acronym for GeprüfteSicherheit (meaning “tested for safety” or “certified for safety”). Also like UL testing, TUV/GS is a voluntary certification.
- The product has been tested for electrical safety, hazardous material components, and unwanted noise production.
- The production facility has undergone an annual inspection.
- GEM PORTAL REGISTRATION
The Government e-marketplace, or GeM, is a portal maintained by the central government of India for the acquisition of products and services by government entities. Public procurement has long been an important aspect of government operations. The government’s goal in implementing GeM was to improve openness and effectiveness in procurement contracts. GeM delivers e-bidding, reversing e-auction, and demands gathering technologies to help government customers get the most bangs for their buck. Sole proprietors, associations, limited liability partnering, private companies, public corporations, overseas subsidiary companies, and other organisations can enrol their businesses on the GeM portal.
The Committee of Secretaries has offered a proposal to the Honourable Prime Minister of India, and the result of the proposal was the formation of a Government E-Marketplace. The Government E-Marketplace is continuously being built, and the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals and the National e-Governance Division of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology assess it on regular bases. In the initial phase, the GeM pilot program begins from the Central Government Bodies and CPSUs in Delhi/NCR. The site has been expanding to other regions of the nation by using best practices and lessons learned.
If you want to buy something from the Government E-Marketplace, you can do it with the aid of a central government-approved agent. / state government / undertakings of the public sector/ independent entities. To enrol in the GeM portal, one must provide different information, and these are as follows:
- Aadhar Card Number
- Contact Information
- E-mail id
- Signature using digital means (Class 3)
- One should produce a letter of permission from the appropriate department in which they are purchasing
- Advantages of GeM Portal
The Indian government is among the country’s top purchasers of products and services, investing thousands of rupees. However, because of the formalities and payment delays, many SMEs and entrepreneurs in India are unable to sell to the government. The GeM, or Government E-Marketplace, attempts to disrupt the present system and replace it with a fast and safe method for government purchasing.
- Gaining Access to the National Government Procurement Marketplace is pretty simple as a vendor.
- Entrepreneurs and MSMEs can find what they want quickly, and bazaar items have special provisions and divisions to start their sales.
- A platform that is completely online, transparent, contactless, and paperless.
- A single request may generate many invoices.
- Participation in bids/reverse auctions is simple.
- The vendors come to know all the causes of the rejections of their products in a detailed way.
- Seller-friendly panel for inventory and payment tracking.
- Sellers from the North-East and J&K are exempted from paying Income tax returns during the period of bidding involvement.
- Dynamic pricing entails changing the cost based on market circumstances.
- Direct contact with government agencies and organisations.
COMPANY REGISTRATION
Setting up a private limited company is one of the highly recommended ways to start a business in India. This type of company offers limited liability for its shareholders with certain restrictions placed on the ownership. An LLP has partners, who own and manage the business. Whereas in private limited company registration, directors may be different from shareholders.
We take care of all legal formalities and fulfill the compliances, as defined by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Post-approval of the company registration process, you receive a Certificate of Incorporation (CoI), along with PAN and TAN. Now, you can open a current bank account and begin your business operations.
- Types of Company structure
It is necessary to choose your company structure carefully as your “Income Tax Returns” will depend on it. While enrolling your enterprise, remember that every company structure has different levels of compliances that must be met. For example, a sole proprietor has to register only an income tax return. Though, a company has to register an income tax return along with annual returns with the registrar of companies.
A company’s account books are to be mandatorily audited all year. Meeting certain legal compliances require spending money on auditors, accountants and tax filing experts. Hence, it is necessary to choose the right company structure when considering company registration. An entrepreneur must have a fair idea of the kind of legal compliances he or she is ready to deal with. Types are:
- Private limited company :
- A private limited company is a separate entity. The liability of the members of a “Private Limited Company” is limited to the number of shares individually owned by them and the shares of the company cannot be publicly traded.
- Section 8 Company :
- Section 8 Company is listed under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013. It has been authorized for expanding commerce, art, science, education, research, social welfare, religion, for the protection of the environment, if there is any form of income, then it can only be used for advertising the objects of the company and no profit can be paid to it’s members. Both “Section 8 Company and Section 25 Company” are different forms of a company, which are registered under the Companies Act, 2013 for charitable or not-for-profit objectives.
- One Person Company (OPC):
- OPC stands as a separate legal entity from it’s members, offers limited liability to it’s shareholders, has a flow of business and is simple to incorporate. One person company is similar to a “Private limited company” but it only needs one single person.
- Limited Liability Partnership
- In the LLP partnership, every partner holds limited liabilities. It, hence, exhibits components of partnerships and corporations. In an LLP, each partner is not accountable or responsible for another partner’s misconduct or carelessness.
- NBFC Company
- Nidhi Company is a kind of Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC). It is determined to borrow and give money to it’s members. It implants the habit of savings among it’s members and acts on the principle of mutual profit.
Benefits
A registered company increases the authenticity of your business. It helps your business:
- Safeguard from personal liability and protects from other risks and losses
- It helps to attract more customers
- A private limited company has multiple options for fundraising. A company can raise funds from shareholders, investors, angels, venture capital funds, private equity funds, foreign funds, NBFCs, banks and other financial institutions. Only a company can raise debt and equity funds from investors.
- Offers liability protection to protect your company’s assets
- A company has ‘perpetual succession,’ which means it will continue to exist until it is legally dissolved. Because a company is a separate legal entity, it is unaffected by the death or other departure of any of its members, and it continues to exist regardless of membership changes.
- Checklist for Registering a Company in India
- Two Directors: A private limited company must have at least two directors, with a maximum of fifteen. A minimum of one of the company’s directors must be a resident of India.
- Unique name: The name of your business must be unique. The suggested name should not match with any existing companies or trademarks in India.
- Minimum Capital Contribution: There is no minimum capital amount for a company. A company should have an authorized capital of at least ₹1 lakh.
- Registered office: The registered office of a company does not have to be a commercial space. Even a rented home can be the registered office, so long as an NOC is obtained from the landlord.
- STARTUP INDIA REGISTRATION
Government of India has introduced the Startup India scheme in 2016. The primary motive of this scheme is to promote the growth of start-ups in India. Under this scheme government has taken several vital steps for building a robust startup ecosystem and making India a country of job creators instead of job seekers. Department for Industrial Policy and Promotion (DPIIT) manages the programs under Startup India Scheme. The startup India registration process has broadened the scope of development by creating job opportunities in the Indian economy.
A startup is a recently settled business, normally small which is started by single or group of people. What separates it from other new organizations is that a startup offers another item or service that isn’t being given somewhere else similarly. The motives are innovation development
Any company with the following features falls into the category of Startup and is also eligible to avail the benefits of DPIIT
- Age of The Company: Company’s Date of Incorporation should not exceed 10 years.
- Type of Company: Either your company is a Private Limited Company under the Companies Act, 2013 or is registered under Indian Partnership Act, 1932 as a Partnership Firm or is registered under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 as a Limited Liability Partnership Firm.
- Turnover Limit: The Company should have an annual turnover which shall not exceed Rs. 100 crore since its incorporation for any of the financial years.
- New Business Entity: The business should be new it must not be the result of split or restructure of an already existing business.
- Innovation Friendly: The startup should be working towards innovation or development of new products or services or in the direction of improvising an existing one. The business model should be highly potential with the purpose to create wealth & generate employment.
- DIPP Certificate: Obtaining certificate from the Inter-Ministerial Board is essentially required; the Board is set up by the DIPP (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion).
Benefits:
India’s largest online entrepreneurship platform allows startups to network, access free tools & resources and participate in programs & challenges.
You can use Startupindia’svast online directory to connect with other stakeholders in the Indian Startup Ecosystem
