In December 2020, the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC), the governing body of telecommunications in Colombia, issued Resolution No. 6129, through which it updates the provisions of the Terminal Equipment Homologation Regime, and subrogates Title VII of Resolution CRC 5050 of 2016, and other provisions are issued. This new regulation came into effect on October 1, 2021.
Among the most outstanding aspects, with this update, every device framed within the definition of ETM, which operates in the frequency bands duly allocated in Colombia for the IMT mobile service in accordance with the National Table of Attribution of Frequency Bands (CNABF ) and whose frequency bands are assigned for use, it must be approved in order to be marketed and activated in the country’s networks, regardless of whether the device makes use of those networks for voice and/or data communications services.
The definition of ETM was established in Resolution CRC 4507 of 2014, which is cited below:
Mobile Terminal Equipment (ETM)*: Device that has an IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identifier), for its acronym in English, or that identifier that fulfills an equivalent function to it, and through which telecommunications networks are accessed mobile phones for the provision of voice and/or data communications services. *(Our translation, not official)
In addition to the above, the purpose of the new regulation is that the general population can carry out the approval process with greater simplicity, thus complying with the obligation to use equipment approved by the CRC.
You can consult Resolution No. 6129 at: