Thousands of unapproved telecom devices were seized during an inspection campaign by Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).
The inspections were carried out to ensure that the quality of telecom equipment in the local market is in line with prescribed standards and also to ascertain the adherence of these businesses to the Telecom Act and the regulations and decisions implementing its provisions.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ( TRA) inspection team, which consists of judicial officers from TRA, confiscated around 2,000 telecom devices that were not type-approved.
Accordingly, the necessary inspection and seizure reports were issued to the offenders and the inspection team drew the attention of these businesses to comply with the Telecommunications Regulatory Act, and the decisions implementing its provisions, and stressed on the need of obtaining type approval certificate from TRA prior to dealing in selling such telecom equipment.
TRA type-approves all the equipment being dealt in the telecom sector to ensure equipment quality and performance, and minimise consumer and network operator issues due to incompatibility with the telecom networks in the Sultanate such as frequency and network interference, and possible health and environmental effects.
All telecommunications equipment dealers are required to obtain approvals required to deal in telecommunications equipment.
TRA also urged the public to immediately report these types of violations on 8000 0000.