Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) is the licensing authority for amateur radio licenses, frequency spectrum, and any other wireless monitoring frequency spectrum in India.
Products with radio and/or wireless functionalities that are imported or manufactured and marketed in India must have an Equipment Type Approval (ETA) & Import Licence (IL) certificate from the Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) wing of the Ministry of Communications of the government of India. This includes products with Bluetooth, wireless local area network access technology (Wi-Fi), small digital radios (Zigbee), and radio frequency identification (RFID) among others.
India Nexus gives complete guidance and steps for the WPC approval and assist the clients in obtaining – Equipment type approval (ETA) & Import License (IL) We support you in completing the required documentation for applying the WPC.
Product Scope
Mandatory requirements for all wireless products (transceivers, transmitters, and receivers) entering the Indian market. Note: only receivers do not need approval, for example, GPS products.
Product examples: wireless Bluetooth watches, wireless water heaters, wireless home appliances, wireless car radio, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and readers, wireless medical products used for patient profiling laptops, mobile phones, wireless mouse and keypads, remote key fob entry, wireless headphones and/or earplugs, wireless music players, wireless remotes, and any other radio frequency modules.
We Can Handle
Equipment Type Approvals. – ETA
Import License. IL
Dealer Possession License.
Frequency Allocation
Testing of the products
The Procedure
First of all license application needs to be fulfilled in the respective category online with all the right information.
An Application ID is provided after online submission
Then this Application ID along with a hard copy of the form is submitted to the WPC office
After careful consideration WPC grant license as per requirements.
Processing Time: 20 Working Days
Different Types of Licenses that are involved with WPC are:
Beacon
CORRECT/CDMA
Captive Radio paging
Wide Area Radio Paging
Captive Radio Trunking
Public Mobile Radio Trunking Service(PMRTS)
Captive VSAT
Commercial VSAT
GSM
Earth station for foreign mission
Experimental
FM Community Broadcast
FM Broadcast
SW Broadcast
Terrestrial Broadcast
Fixed/Mobile-HF/VHF/UHF-Land Based
Fixed/Mobile-HF/VHF/UHF-Land Based(additional category)
HF/VHF for Foreign Mission
MW Broadcast
MW link for Foreign Mission
MW link for Cellular(GSM)
MW link for WLL(CDMA)
Link for Point to Point Communication
MW link for Point to Multipoint(for ISP, ILD, NLD)
MW link for wide-area Radio Paging
Radar
Remote Controller
SCADA
Satellite Broadcast
Satellite Network-Gateway for ISP, ILD, NLD
Satellite Network-Receive only Earth Station
Satellite News Gathering
Shot Range UHF Hand Held Radio (USR)
Spread Spectrum
TV Receive Only Dish Antenna(TVRO) for Foreign Mission