Product approval, certification services - Mexico

Telecoms and radio

TRaC offers a type approval and project management service for a wide range of telecoms equipment to ensure that products intended for sale or use in Mexico meet all of the necessary regulatory and compliance requirements for Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL).

In addition to the COFETEL certification, your product must also be tested for EMC and Safety to gain the Mexican Official Norms (NoM) certificate. Two organisations are authorised to grant NoM certification for telecommunication and electronic equipment products, namely Normalizacióny Certificación Electronica, AC (NYCE) and Asociación Nacional de Normalización y Certificación del Sector Eléctrico, AC (ANCE), responsible for electric/electronic equipment of a domestic nature. NoM testing must be carried out in Mexico. 

Types of Equipment

TLTE and RF Type Approval is applicable but not necessarily limited to, data and text processing equipment, data preparation equipment, data terminal equipment, data circuit terminating equipment (for example, modems), automatic telephone answering machines, facsimile transceivers, call restriction devices, cordless telephones, digital and analogue feature telephones, lightning protection devices, line monitoring equipment and speech recorders.

Type Approval Requirements

All equipment testing must be carried out in-country. All foreign manufacturers who want to obtain type approval in Mexico of telecommunications terminal equipment products must appoint a Mexican citizen or company to apply for and hold approval. All applicants must be registered on the local Trade Register as being professionally involved with the marketing of electronics or telecommunications equipment.

Project Management for COFETEL, ANCE and NYCE Approvals

For COFETEL, ANCE and NYCE approvals, the process that TraC-KTL can project manage includes the following services:

• Organisation of despatch of the samples to prevent delays at Customs

• Management of the testing process till type approval is complete

• Completion of all paperwork including application forms, declarations, and letters of authority to be sent to COFETEL, ANCE and NYCE in Mexico

• Liaison with local offices and distributors in Mexico

• Submission of the approval applications to COFETEL, ANCE and NYCE

• Making payment for the certification on your behalf

• Ongoing liaison with COFETEL, ANCE and NYCE until type approval is granted

Testing Standards required by COFETEL, ANCE and NYCE

Testing must be carried out in-country to Mexican standards.

To ensure we provide the latest information about appropriate standards for your products, or for more information about the testing services offered by TRaC for telecoms products for the Mexican market, please contact us.