The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 1999

Digital European Cordless Telecommunications Apparatus (DECT, also known as Digital Enhanced Telecommunications Apparatus)

5.  Apparatus conforming, at the time it is manufactured, to the ETSI Technical Basis for Regulation TBR 006 referred to in Part IV(1) and consisting of one or more base stations, repeater stations and portable stations designed or adapted–

(a) to be used to send and receive voice or data messages or visual images either directly between a base station and a portable station or between a base station and a portable station by relay through a repeater station in digitised packets in time division duplex mode bi-directionally to be conveyed over a telecommunication system to which the base station is connected; and

(b) so as to operate within the frequency band 1880–1900 MHz(2).

For the purposes of this paragraph, “repeater station” means a station which relays the voice or data message or visual image between the base station and one or more portable stations.

(1)

Council Recommendation 91/288/EEC of 3rd June 1991 (OJ No. L144, 8.6.91, p. 47) referred to the co-ordinated introduction of DECT into the European Community.

(2)

Council Directive 91/287/EEC of 3rd June 1991 (OJ No. L144, 8.6.91, p. 45) designated the frequency band for the co-ordinated introduction of DECT into the European Community.