Richard, Under the old Part 68 regime, there was a thing called a "Limited field trial" administered by the Telcos. This was primarily used to do test prototypes and do early field trials while you were waiting for the FCC to issue the approval. You had to have a compliant product, i.e. have all your testing completed, before you coud go to field trial.
This process has now gone the way of the Dodo, as there is no longer any approval by an agency (FCC, ACTA) required; you self declare as a manufacturer. Under the self declaration scheme, all you have to do is test your product (can be inhouse), issue a Declaration of Conformity, and send the application to ACTA. You do not have to wait for any form of approval from ACTA, but you can ship the product in any quantities you wish, as soon as you have signed the declaration and posted it on your company website . All the details are on the ACTA website (www.part68.org). Regards Doug Beckwith ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
