Thai NTC (NBTC) Certification

The National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) or The National Telecommunication and Broadcasting Commission (NBTC) is an independent state telecommunications regulator in Thailand. Its duties and responsibilities are to regulate all telecommunication services in the country through formulating a Master Plan on Telecommunications Activities, setting criteria and categories of telecommunication services, permitting and regulating the use of spectrum for telecommunication services, and granting licenses to the telecommunications operators.

Classification of Products

Telecommunication equipments to be sold in Thailand subjected to NTC or NBTC’s scope are divided into 3 groups:

  • Class A: Registration
  • Class B: Approval Certification
  • SDoC: Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity
Qman-Consulting services
We offers consulting and application service to you to get NTC or NBTC certificate in the most convenient ways. We helps you to optimize your application by arranging faster and cost effective testing laboratory. We helps you about self declaration procedure. Our services will ensure you will get your products certified or registered so that you will be able to sell your products in provided time frame.

Lead time

Estimate lead-time to complete certification is around 2-3 weeks. For SDoc submission, estimate lead time to complete registration is within 3 days.

Required information for NTC or NBTC certification

  • Application form in Thai language (We will arrange on this section for you)
  • Technical documents of products (such as Catalog / Brochure / Photos and/or Technical specification and/or Operation manual / Service manual and/or Circuit Diagram
  • Test reports (e.g. RF, EMF/SAR, safety test reports)
  • Other related documents

Who requires to apply NTC or NBTC application?

  • Manufacturers, importers, traders, retailers or advertisers (local/oversea)
  • The applicants shall provides local representative in Thailand.
  • Applicant wish to submit applications shall be “Local Representative” having a “Suppliers Code” and submitting in Thai language only.

List of NTC technical standards in force

Number Scope Covered

Equipment Classification
NTC TS 001-2548 Radiocommunication equipment operating in land mobile service in the VHF/UHF frequency band

Class B
NTC TS 002-2548 Radiocommunication equipment for general public operating in the 78 MHz or 245 MHz frequency band

Class B
NTC TS 003-2548 Radiocommunication equipment operating in aeronautical mobile service in the VHF frequency band

Class B
NTC TS 004-2548 User equipment operating in cellular land mobile service using GSM technology

Class B
NTC TS 005-2548 Radiocommunication equipment in Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) system

Class A
NTC TS 006-2548 Wireless microphones

Class A
NTC TS 007-2548 Radio control operating in 72 MHz

Class B
NTC TS 1008-2549 Base stations/repeaters operating in cellular land mobile service using GSM technology

Class B
NTC TS 1009-2549 Digital trunked radio system in land mobile service

Class B
NTC TS 1010-2550 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) equipment

Class A / SDoC
NTC TS 1011-2557 Automotive vehicle radar in the frequency band 24.05-24.25, 24.25-26.65 and 76-77 GHz

Class A
NTC TS 1012-2551 Broadband Wireless Access (Radio Local Area Network) radiocommunication equipment

SDoC
NTC TS 1013-2549 Broadband Wireless Access (Metropolitan Area Network) radiocommunication equipment

Class B
NTC TS 1014-2549 Base stations/repeaters operating in cellular land mobile service using IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread (WCDMA) technology

Class B
NTC TS 1015-2549 User equipment operating in cellular land mobile service using IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread (WCDMA) technology

Class B
NTC TS 1016-2549 Base stations/repeaters operating in cellular land mobile service using IMT-2000 CDMA Multi-Carrier (cdma2000) technology

Class B
NTC TS 1017-2549 User equipment operating in cellular land mobile service using IMT-2000 CDMA Multi-Carrier (cdma2000) technology

Class B
NTC TS 1018-2550 Radiocommunication equipment operating in amateur service

Class B
NTC TS 1019-2551 Antenna of earth station in fixed-satellite service using geo-stationary orbit

Class A
NTC TS 1020-2550 27 MHz CB radiocommunication equipment on board ship

Class B
NTC TS 1021-2550 Radiocommunication equipment operating in maritime mobile service in the VHF frequency band

Class B
NTC TS 1022-2552 Maritime Mobile Service in the MH/HF bands

Class B
NTC TS 1023-2552 Aeronautical moble service in the VHF band for data communication in the VHF Air-Ground digital link (VDL) system

Class B
NTC TS 1024-2552 Land mobile service in the VHF/UHF frequency band for speech and/or data communications

Class B
NTC TS 1025-2557 Short Range Devices 57-66 GHz in WLAN or WPAN

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Class A
NTC TS 1026-2557 Base station and repeat station IMT with E-UTRA technology

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Class B
NTC TS 1027-2557 Client equipments IMT with E-UTRA technology

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Class B
NTC TS 2001-2550 Optical Communication System

SDoC
NTC TS 3001-2550 EMC of telecom terminal equipment

SDoC
NTC TS 4001-2550 Electrical safety of telecom terminal equipment

SDoC
NTC TS 5001-2550 (RF Safety) Radiocommunication equipment (Radio frequency radiation exposure in 9 kHz – 300 GHz) Based on ICNIRP Guidelines

Depends on type of equipment