Brazil regulatory - The Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (ANATEL) released new Act nº1630 - Test Procedures For Evaluating the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for Telecommunications Products on March 11,2021. This new Act replaced the previous Act 955 (Feb 8th, 2018).
The key changes are listed below.
1.Changing the applicable frequency range from 300 MHz to 6 GHz to 4 MHz to 6 GHz.
2.Separation Distance between Manikin and the Portable Terminal up to 15 mm from any part of the human body.
3.For portable devices sold with two or more batteries that have differences related to (to): load capacity, physical dimensions or protection circuit, the tests must be carried out, in full, with the battery with the greatest capacity. The remaining batteries can only be used in tests to determine the highest SAR value in each radio frequency band.
4.Only accessories with metallic/conductive parts must be tested along with the portable device. Accessories with other non-conductive materials (such as silicone, plastic, etc.) does not need to be tested. The accessories must be tested in the configuration of technology and RF range that has the highest SAR value of the portable device measured without accessories.
5.Inclusion of new procedure of SAR measures for Non-Simultaneous Signals.
6.Inclusion of new procedure of Average Time Interval for Time-Averaging SAR - TAS.
7.Inclusion of new procedure to determine the maximum SAR in the spatial average of a portable devices.
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