On October 7th, 2022, ANATEL published Official Letter No. 218. The objective of this new Regulation is to clarify some aspects of the certification of RF Modules in products.

Important Highlights:

• If a product does not incorporate a detachable (or soldered-on) RF Module but instead the RF circuitry is integrated into a circuit board containing end-product-specific functionality, certification of the end-product is mandatory.
• If the product’s sole data interface is via RF, it’s necessary to certify the end-product regardless of whether a module is employed in the product design.
• It’s allowed to have WLAN in the same certificate as WWAN+WLAN (in cases of feature-reduced models).
• It’s allowed to have different RF Module Manufacturers (if they have the same technology) in a single end-product certificate.
• It’s not allowed to inform the end-product’s name in the Module's certificate.