Resolution 737 EXENTA

AMENDS EXEMPT RESOLUTION N° 1,985 OF 2017 OF THE UNDERSECRETARIAT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS, WHICH ESTABLISHES THE TECHNICAL NORM FOR SHORT-RANGE DEVICES

N° 737 exempt.— Santiago, May 13, 2025.

Having seen:

a) Decree-Law N° 1,762 of 1977, which creates the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications, hereinafter the Undersecretariat.

b) Law N° 18,168, General Telecommunications Law.

c) Exempt Resolution N° 1,985 of 2017, which establishes the technical norm for short-range devices, issued by the Undersecretariat, and its subsequent amendments.

d) Exempt Resolution N° 1,261 of 2004, which approves the technical norm for the local-band service, and its subsequent amendments.

e) Exempt Resolution N° 3,103 of 2012, which amends Exempt Resolution N° 403 of 2008, the technical norm on safety requirements applicable to installations and equipment of telecommunications services generating electromagnetic waves, fixing its consolidated text.

f) Resolution N° 36 of 2024 of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, setting rules on exemption from the formal legality review procedure.

Considering:

1) That in recent years a sustained and substantial increase has been observed in the number of short-range device certification requests filed with this Undersecretariat. The magnitude of that increase is explained mainly by the massive adoption of consumer electronics using 5G standards or other standards associated with the Internet of Things (IoT).

2) That the short-range devices regulated by the technical norm referred to in point c) are characterized, among other aspects, by their limited capacity to cause interference to other telecommunications services; moreover, that same norm establishes uniform treatment in terms of certification for all the categories of equipment it regulates, without accounting for the differences that warrant differentiated treatment.

3) That, based on the above, it is deemed appropriate to reserve the certification procedure only for short-range devices intended for medical applications. For the remaining categories of short-range devices, it is deemed necessary to establish a more appropriate regulatory burden, oriented primarily toward enabling any user to access their technical characteristics at any time by reading a QR code. In both cases, without altering the inspection powers legally attributed to this Undersecretariat, which may be exercised in any circumstance that warrants it.

4) That, on the other hand, the wording of some current provisions will be corrected in order to eliminate redundancies that could lead to reading errors. More limited corrections will also be incorporated in order to standardize the technical terms used in the text and to align them, where appropriate, with the expressions used by the International Telecommunication Union in its publications.

5) The need to efficiently administer the use of the radio-electric spectrum, and in use of my powers.

I resolve:

Article one.— Exempt Resolution N° 1,985 of 2017, which establishes the technical norm for short-range devices, is hereby amended as follows:

1. In Article 1°, after the word "equipment", replace the phrase "that uses radio-electric waves and that meets the requirements detailed below only need certification for their use, notwithstanding that they are" with "radiocommunication equipment described in this technical norm must comply with the operating parameters indicated for each case, even when they form".

2. In Article 1°, delete the word "maximum" each time it appears after the expressions "power", "P.I.R.E.", "PIRE" and "(P.I.R.E.)". Thereafter, replace the expressions "P.I.R.E.", "PIRE" and "(P.I.R.E.)" with "p.i.r.e.".

3. In Article 1°, letter a), delete the phrase ", and that meet the following requirements".

4. In Article 1°, letter d), delete the phrase "and that meet the following requirements".

5. In Article 1°, letter e), replace the phrase "with an electric field intensity not exceeding the values" with "shall not exceed the electric field intensity values".

6. In Article 1°, letter f), after the word "in", replace the phrase "any of the following frequencies:" with "in the frequencies" and after "MHz" delete the phrase "and that meet the requirements indicated below".

7. In Article 1°, letter f.3), replace the word "espúreas" with "espurias" (correct spelling of "spurious" in Spanish).

8. In Article 1°, letter g), after the expression (MICS) delete the phrase ", which meet the following requirements, as applicable".

9. Repealed. [Numeral repealed by N° 6 of Article one of Exempt Resolution 2219, Transport, published on 24-NOV-2025.]

10. In Article 1°, letter h), final paragraph, after the word "equipment", replace the phrase "and their characteristics, that are certified under letter" with "described in letter".

11. In Article 1°, letter i), after the expression "76 to 77 GHz with a", delete the phrase "equivalent isotropically radiated power".

12. In Article 1°, letter j.1), second paragraph, the period after the word "indicated" becomes a final period and the phrase "Operation of the equipment shall be restricted to controlled emissions inside enclosed spaces (houses, buildings, offices, factories, warehouses, etc.)." is deleted.

13. In Article 1°, letter j.1), fourth paragraph, after the expression "may not be" delete the word "be".

14. In Article 1°, replace the final paragraph "Without prejudice to the frequencies and powers of IoT devices indicated in the preceding table, IoT devices certified under the RFID characteristics indicated in letter e) of this article may also be used." with the following: "All short-range devices described in this article must comply with the provisions of article 3° of Exempt Resolution N° 3,103 of 2012 of the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications, on safety requirements applicable to installations and equipment that generate electromagnetic waves, or with any regulation that replaces it.".

15. Article 2° is replaced by the following:

New Article 2° (Text replaced by numeral 15 of Article one)

1) Certification of equipment described in letters g) and h) of Article 1°:

Any manufacturer or importer of equipment described in letters g) and h) of Article 1°, before selling or transferring them to third parties, on any basis, for use within the country, must obtain a certificate from the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications attesting compliance with the provisions of this technical norm regarding radio-electric emissions. Certifications of equipment issued in accordance with this technical norm do not authorize, in any case, their use for medical purposes.

2) QR marking of equipment described in letters a), b), c), d), e), f), i), j) and k) of Article 1°:

Any manufacturer or importer of equipment belonging to any of the categories described in letters a), b), c), d), e), f), i), j) and k) of Article 1°, before commercializing or transferring them to third parties, on any basis, for use in Chile, must verify that their radio-electric emissions comply with the entirety of the sectoral telecommunications regulations applicable to them. For this verification, the manufacturer or importer of the equipment must obtain an Informe de Ensayo or Test Report demonstrating that the values of their radio-electric emissions conform to the provisions of the sectoral telecommunications regulations in general and, in particular, of this technical norm.

Likewise, in a visible location on one of the exterior faces of the packaging of each device, and without interfering with other marks, a QR code must be printed or affixed containing a hyperlink to a website in the Spanish language, with the format and content indicated in the following three letters:

A. Commercial information about the equipment and the manufacturer or importer in Chile.

— Date:

— Commercial name of the equipment:

— Manufacturer:

— Importer or representative in Chile:

— Address:

— Contact email:

— Website:

B. Technical characteristics of the equipment. (Table with the fields: Equipment type, Brand, Model, Technology or modulation, Frequencies, Antenna gain (dBi), p.i.r.e., Modules).

— Informe de Ensayo or Test Report:

C. Declaration of conformity: the previously individualized equipment complies with the provisions established in the Technical Norm for Short-Range Devices, approved by Exempt Resolution N° 1,985 of 2017 of the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications.

3) The information displayed on the website described in numeral 2) above must conform to the following definitions, formats, and instructions:

a) Date: date on which the information is published on the website, in day / month / year format.

b) Commercial name of the equipment: denomination under which the equipment is marketed to the public.

c) Manufacturer: natural or legal person who manufactures the equipment or who contracts third parties to design or manufacture it and markets it under their name or commercial mark.

d) Representative or importer: the representative is the natural or legal person empowered to represent the manufacturer in Chile. The importer is the natural or legal person who introduces the equipment into Chilean territory for subsequent commercialization.

e) Address: address in Chile of the manufacturer, their representative for Chile or, failing that, the importer. The format is street name, number, comuna.

f) Contact email: contact email address of the representative or importer.

g) Website: website of the manufacturer, representative or importer.

h) Equipment type: category to which the equipment or device belongs according to its functionality. For example: television, computer, notebook, remote control, microphone, camera, mouse, among others. This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

i) Brand: denomination of the commercial mark or distinctive under which the equipment is marketed to the public. This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

j) Model: commercial denomination that identifies the equipment and distinguishes it from others marketed under the same brand. This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

k) Technology or Modulation: mention of the operating standards or norms of the equipment. In case the equipment can operate under more than one standard or technology, all of them must be mentioned, separated by a slash. For example: 802.11n for WLAN / 802.15.1 for Bluetooth (GFSK). This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

l) Frequency bands: frequency ranges of operation in the format Y - Z, where Y is the lower limit and Z the upper limit. If the equipment operates under several technologies or standards, each must be separated by a slash. If the equipment operates in more than one frequency range within the same technology or standard, all relevant ranges must be mentioned, separated by a comma. Example: 802.15.1 2402-2480 MHz / 802.11b 2.412 - 2.462 MHz / 802.11ax 2412 - 2462 MHz, 5180 - 5240 MHz, 5745 - 5825 MHz. This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

m) Antenna gain: gain in dBi of each antenna for each of the technologies used by the equipment, separated by a slash. If the equipment operates with more than one antenna within the same technology or standard, the gains of each must be mentioned separated by a comma, following the same order as the preceding letter l). Example: 802.15.1 1.5 dBi / 802.11b 3 dBi / 802.11ax 3 dBi, 4 dBi. This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

n) Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power or p.i.r.e.: maximum value measured in dBm and its equivalent in mW, determined by the laboratory that prepares the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report, for each of the frequency bands used by the equipment. Where applicable, the Electric Field Intensity measured over the fundamental frequency and the distance at which the measurement was taken may also be reported. If the equipment uses several antennas for the same technology, the total sum of the radiated powers of all antennas (MIMO) must be reported. This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

o) Modules: radio-frequency module that operates with technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, RFID, ZigBee and others, connected to an antenna to transmit. If the equipment has no modules to report, a hyphen must be inserted in the center of each cell of the corresponding row. This information must appear in the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report.

p) Informe de Ensayo or Test Report: a hyperlink allowing the download of a PDF file corresponding to the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report. The anchor text displayed must correspond to the file name.

If some technical characteristics of an item are confidential, access to them on the website may be restricted by a password. Likewise, if the Informe de Ensayo or Test Report contains confidential information, the version for free download may have censored parts, and a password may be required to access the full version. In any case, the respective password must be previously reported to the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications by email addressed to certificaciones@subtel.gob.cl.

If the website contains information about more than one device, it must have a search function. This search must allow finding specific information about each piece of equipment by name, brand, model, type, or technical characteristics.

4) The QR code mentioned in numeral 2) above must comply with the following requirements:

a) It must be placed in a visible location on one of the exterior faces of the equipment packaging.

b) It must have a minimum size of 1 cm wide by 1 cm tall.

c) It must not have frames.

d) It must be a model readable by mobile devices. For example: Model 2, according to the QR standard.

e) The contrast between the two colors of the pattern that forms the QR code must be legible for any reader device.

f) Border style: squares (modules).

g) Center style: squares (modules).

h) Error-correction level: 30%.

Equipment in the categories described in letters a), b), c), d), e), f), j) and k) of Article 1° may not operate, nor may they be exhibited to the public, if their packaging does not display the QR code described in this norm. Likewise, the corresponding QR code must appear visible in every physical or virtual space where an item of equipment is exhibited or advertised.

Article one continued — numerals 16 to 18

16. In Article 3°, final paragraph, after the word "may", insert the expression "inspect at any time compliance with the requirements and obligations contained in this regulation and".

17. Article 4° is replaced by the following: "Breach of the requirements and obligations set out in this norm shall give rise to the sanctioning procedure established in Title VII of the General Telecommunications Law.".

18. In Article 6°, after the word "the", replace the phrase "reports (test reports) filed with certification requests" with "Informes de Ensayo or Test Reports"; after the expression "documentation", insert the phrase "that the manufacturer or importer must submit", and after the final period of the paragraph, which becomes a comma, add the following final phrase "as indicated in Article 2°.".

Note (repeal of numeral 9)

N° 6 of Article one of Exempt Resolution 2219, Transport, published on 24-NOV-2025, repealed N° 9 of this article as of its publication date. That numeral had amended Exempt Resolution N° 1,985 of 2017 by inserting in Article 1°, after the existing letter g.2), a new letter g.3) reading: "g.3) Medical data-acquisition devices operating in the 430 - 440 MHz frequency band, with a maximum radiated power of 0.1 µW and using frequency-hopping technology."

Article two (Effective date)

This resolution shall enter into force nine months after its publication in the Official Gazette.

To be recorded and published in the Official Gazette.— Claudio Marcelo Araya San Martín, Undersecretary of Telecommunications.