Brazil – ANATEL Act 17087 Updating the Electrical Safety Standard for Telecom Devices

Last week, ANATEL published Act 17087 of December 19, 2022. This Act will replace Act 950 and updates the electrical safety standard for telecom devices. It will enter into force 1 (one) year after the date of publication, on December 27, 2023.

The main changes are related to new marking requirements, updated definitions, updated reference standards and adjustments in the acoustic shock testing level.

Changes include the following:

• Definition of End user and consumer of telecommunication service (General Public), herein treated as user: any person who uses and/or has contact with the product and who does not have specialized technical knowledge about the telecommunication equipment and who is only interested in the job of its functionalities and in the consumption of telecommunication services;
• Safety testing is applied to all telecommunication devices intended to be installed where the end-user has direct, unrestricted and unlimited access to the equipment. Example: interior of buildings (residential and commercial), the interior of vehicles or aircraft without restricted access;
• Protection against Acoustic Shock testing level reduced from 1.5kV to 1.0kV. This testing is only applied to devices with that has an external telecommunications port (ex. PSTN, FXO port) and electroacoustic transducer intended to produce audible sound and intended for direct coupling to the user’s ear;
• Devices directly connected to the mains power (AC), the equipment marking must show the nominal voltage, current and/or power and frequency values. For those devices connected to the main power through an external power supply sold with the equipment, the markings mentioned above must be shown on the power supply label;
• Battery powered equipment that allows its replacement by the user must have clear instructions in the manual for carrying out this procedure;
• Class I equipment must carry the Class I written warning on the product label or in its user manual;
• For mobile phones sold without a power supply; the user manual must contain a guideline alerting consumers to use only power supplies approved by ANATEL.

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