ICC is conducting a study on behalf of DGXIII of the European Commission on the progress of harmonisation in the European approval of analogue PSTN terminals.
During the course of this work, the following has become apparent: - Certain Notified Bodies will grant approvals against CTR21 for all terminals that do not support live voice telephony (justified case voice as referred to in 98/13 article 5(g) - Certain other Notified Bodies have a different opinion as to the scope of TBR21 and believe that all terminals which support any form of voice, be that answering machine, loudspeaking or private telephony (non PSTN) should be assessed against national standards, and not TBR21. I do not want to be contentious here and start naming names, but if the above turns out to be true, certain Notified Bodies will end up issuing the majority of CTR21 approvals. The next interesting question which will arise is whether the countries which hold a more conservative line on the scope of TBR21 will make it difficult in some other way for terminals to be placed on the markets of those countries, even if they hold "valid" CE approvals against CTR21. (Such a question may also be relevant in the case of a terminal which has not been successfully assessed against the Advisory Notes of a particular target country.) The European Commission is eager to promote a true single market for PSTN terminals as quickly as possible, as demonstrated by the recent efforts to publish CTR21 prior to the Summer recess. Thus, if anyone has any comment on this issue, or has a tale of frustration to share, please email your input to [email protected]. We are particulalry interested to hear from anyone who is experiencing difficulty in marketing terminals in a particular country, even if the terminals hold CTR21 approvals. ICC's final report will be issued to the European Commission in November. It is intended that this become a publicaly available document, subject to review by the EC. We await your comments with interest. Thank you. Regards Ynyr Roberts InterConnect Communications (ICC) ------------- Begin Original Message ------------- List-Post: [email protected] Date: Fri Aug 7 11:32:51 -0400 1998 From: internet!world.std.com!jdc (Jon D Curtis) Subject: BOUNCE [email protected]: Non-member submission from ["Filiz Eryilmaz" <[email protected]>] (fwd) To: internet!world.std.com!treg Content-Type: Text Content-Length: 1313 From: "Filiz Eryilmaz" <[email protected]> Subject: Tests required for data/voice modem Hi TREGgers I would like you to foward this request to TREG and some test houses (KTL, etc.) I have a product that I would like to test to CTR 21, but I'm not sure I can, since the product is a data/fax/voice modem. However, the voice application employs mic and speaker jacks connected to a seperate voice Codec, which does not interface directly to the DAA circuitry but to a common DSP. There is no data/voice switching, that is, there is no series TE connection and no associated handset. My question is, because the modem has answering machine capability, will it be required to be tested as a country specific voice product, or will it be tested to TBR21 with possible supplemental voice test add-ons? If country specific testing under a "Voice Product" is required, where can I find the relavent test specification/requirement documents? My understanding is that in the BABT view, the voice exclusion in TBR 21 is for "real time" voice handset telephony. If this is the case, can my product therefore be tested to CTR 21? Filiz Eryilmaz Lucent Technologies(formerly AT&T) 200,Laurel Ave. Middletown, 07748 NJ, USA [email protected] tel: (732)9576943 fax:(732)9576878
