Dear Treggers, I hope we can put this issue to rest, right from the horse's mouth. The answer came form akihiro sakuma, our representative in Japan.
Hello Liz, Mark has forwarded your questions to me. We meet and talk to JATE at least once a week and when this rumor came up on TREG, I was very surpized because I haven't haven't heard anything from JATE about it. I asked them directly about what was told on TREG. They told me that actually, nothing, EXCEPT what was written in the May issue of the JATE paper is to change. I won't hide that they were not happy at all about this rumor and were looking for its origin. There isn't any exceptional change to the actual requirements at all and nothing concerning modifications of the forms. These changes were mostly decided in order to adapt the old mpt rules to the new "international" modem types on which country configuration can be modified by selecting the country code stored in the IOS. Also, JATE reminded me that, unlike what was declared on TREG, modem regulations are decided by the ministry of Post and Telecommunications and, as a independant agency, JATE doesn't have power to modify the regulations. I think this answer was also confirmed by several other persons here, meeting JATE regularly. Please let me know if you need more precise information about the changes and new JATE announcements. There is nothing secret, the only prolblem is that everything is written in Japanese in the JATE papers.
