Circular No. 08/2021/TT-BTTTT dated October 14th, 2021 of the Ministry of Information and Communications on prescribing list of license-exempt radio devices and accompanying technical and operational conditions

Promulgated together with this Circular are:

- List of license-exempt radio devices (Appendix 1)

- Technical and operational conditions applied to license-exempt radio devices (Appendix 2 thru Appendix 20

Notably, if radio devices provided in Appendix 1 fails to meet corresponding technical and operational conditions provided in Appendix 2 thru Appendix 20), they shall not be used in Vietnam, except the following devices which may be used under the license to use radio frequency and radio devices:

1. RFID operating in the 920-923 MHz frequency band and used for non-stop electronic toll collection stations with a radiated power above 500 mW ERP to 2000 mW ERP.

2. LPWAN devices operating in the 433,05-434,79 MHz frequency band with a radiated power above 25 mW ERP to 100 mW ERP and those operating in the 920-923 MHz frequency band with a radiated power above 25 mW ERP to 306 mW ERP.

3. Radio devices placed on fishing vessels operating on the frequencies outside the 26,96-27,41 MHz frequency band under the radio frequency planning.

4. Radio terminal devices used for safety and rescue purposes and operating on the frequencies prescribed by the international organizations to which Vietnam is a signatory or prescribed in the frequency use planning but not prescribed in this Circular.

This Circular takes effect from November 28th, 2021. To replace Circular No. 46/2016/TT-BTTTT dated December 26th, 2016 and Circular No. 18/2018/TT-BTTTT dated December 20th, 2018.