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The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 1999

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PART IIIDESCRIPTIONS OF THE PRESCRIBED APPARATUS

Analogue Cordless Telephone Apparatus (CT1)

1.  Apparatus consisting of a base station and one or more portable stations designed or adapted in accordance with MPT 1322–

(a)to be used to send and receive voice or data messages to be conveyed over a telecommunication system to which the base station is connected; and

(b)so as not to operate on more than one of the pairs of frequencies set out below at any one time–

Channel No.Base station transmission frequencyPortable station transmission frequency
11642.00 kHz47.45625 MHz
21662.00 kHz47.46875 MHz
31682.00 kHz47.48125 MHz
41702.00 kHz47.49375 MHz
51722.00 kHz47.50625 MHz
61742.00 kHz47.51875 MHz
71762.00 kHz47.53125 MHz or 47.44375 MHz
81782.00 kHz47.54375 MHz

2.  Apparatus consisting of a base station and one or more portable stations designed or adapted in accordance with MPT 1384–

(a)to be used to send and receive voice or data messages to be conveyed over a telecommunication system to which the base station is connected; and

(b)so as not to operate on more than one of the pair of frequencies set out below at any one time–

Channel No.Base station transmission frequencyPortable station transmission frequency
131.0375 MHz39.9375 MHz
231.0625 MHz39.9625 MHz
331.0875 MHz39.9875 MHz
431.1125 MHz40.0125 MHz
531.1375 MHz40.0375MHz
631.1625 MHz40.0625 MHz
731.1875 MHz40.0875 MHz
831.2125 MHz40.1125 MHz

Analogue Cordless Telephone Extended Range Apparatus (Extended Range CT1)

3.  Apparatus consisting of a base station and one or more portable stations designed or adapted in accordance with MPT 1371–

(a)to be used to send and receive voice or data messages to be conveyed over a telecommunication system to which the base station is connected; and

(b)so as to operate on either of the pairs of frequencies set out below–

Channel No.Base station transmission frequencyPortable station transmission frequency
147.43125 MHz77.51250 MHz
247.41875 MHz77.55000 MHz

Digital Cordless Telephone Apparatus (CT2)

4.  Apparatus conforming, at the time it is manufactured, to MPT 1334 or the Interim European Telecommunications Standard I-ETS 300 131 referred to in Part IV and consisting of one or more base stations and one or more portable stations designed or adapted–

(a)to be used to send and receive voice or data messages or visual images 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 in a 100 kHz channel within the frequency band 864.1–868.1 MHz.

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.

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