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Certifications

Issue 01 (2011-04-08)

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7.4.2 PTCRB Certification

The PTCRB requirements are certification standards in North America.

The PTCRB was created in March 1997. GSM 850 MHz requirements were added to

the PTCRB requirements in May 2001, which is an important development milestone

in the history of standardization organizations in U.S.A. Similar to the GCF, the

PTCRB comprises of operators and mainstream mobile phone manufacturers, and

approved laboratories. The PTCRB was created by North American operators

(Cingular, T-Mobile, and Rogers) and is applied to North America, Central America,

and South America. The PTCRB certification is similar to the GCF certification,

except that the PTCRB certification acts as the license for the UMTS terminals to be

connected to American operators' networks. Only the PTCRB certified terminals are

accepted by mainstream operators.

The PTCRB certification also differs from the GCF certification in the frequency

bands because the frequency bands used in America differ from those in Europe.

The PTCRB focuses on the GSM 850 MHz, GSM 1900 MHz, WCDMA FDD II, and

WCDMA FDD V, while the GCF focuses on the GSM 900 MHz, GSM 1800 MHz, and

WCDMA FDD I.

Different from the GCF certification, the PTCRB certification does not allow DOC.

The entire certification process should be performed under the PTCRB's supervision

and all the certification tests should be performed in the labs authorized by the

PTCRB. A manufacturer who applies for the PTCRB certification needs to submit a

test application to the PTCRB, and then the PTCRB will transfer the application to the

test organization designated by the manufacturer. The test organization should

perform the test and then submit the test report to the PTCRB for review. The PTCRB

certification is completed if the PTCRB approves the test report. The PTCRB should

also publish the certification on its website for viewing and querying by the PTCRB

members.

The PTCRB certification is similar to the GCF certification in terms of test system.

The only difference is that no field testing is performed in the case of the PTCRB

certification. OTA tests are adopted to measure the antenna performance. The

PTCRB test items and version are also updated continuously. Different from the

GCF-CC version, only one PTCRB version is valid at any time. Each PTCRB version

is valid for three months. Manufacturers are not allowed to apply for the previous

version of PTCRB certification if a new version is released. For a terminal for which

the manufacturer has applied for the previous version of PTCRB certification before

the new version is released, the manufacturer needs not to apply for the new version

if the PTCRB certification is completed within nine months.

7.4.3 Overall-System Certification

Both the test system and test items of the GCF certification are similar to those of the

PTCRB certification. Both certifications test the declared capabilities of terminals

based on the 3GPP test standards. The integrated equipment needs to pass relevant

certification tests, even though the modules pass the conformance certification. The

following describes the overall-system certification procedures in detail. The overall-

system can be a notebook, a MID, a smartphone, etc.