scope:

The present document applies to terminal equipment for IMT-FT. IMT-FT is the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) system being a member of the ITU IMT-2000 family. DECT terminal equipment consists of the following elements:

a) Fixed Part (FP);

b) Portable Part (PP);

c) Cordless Terminal Adapter (CTA);

d) Wireless Relay Station (WRS) (FP and PP combined with repeater functionality);

e) Hybrid Part (HyP) (a PP with capability to act as a FP to provide PP to PP communication).

These radio equipment types are capable of operating in all or any part of the frequency bands.

The IMT-FT (DECT) service frequency bands for transmitting and receiving for all elements are the parts of the European UMTS spectrum applicable for TDD operation, 1 900 MHz to 1 980 MHz and 2 010 MHz to 2 025 MHz, (see ERC/DEC(99)25 [18] and ERC/DEC(00)01 [19]).

NOTE 1: IMT-FT equipment may have a second mode for providing operation also in the DECT band 1 880 MHz to 1 900 MHz. Application of DECT in the band 1 880 MHz to 1 900 MHz is covered by EN 301 406 [i.7].

Details of the DECT Common Interface may be found in EN 300 175 parts 1 to 8 [5] to [12]. Further details of the DECT system may be found in the ETSI Technical Reports, TR 101 178 [i.1] and ETR 043 [i.2].

The present document is intended to cover the provisions of Directive 1999/5/EC (R&TTE Directive) [1] article 3.2, which states that "[...] radio equipment shall be so constructed that it effectively uses the spectrum allocated to terrestrial/space radio communications and orbital resources so as to avoid harmful interference".

In addition to the present document, other ENs that specify technical requirements in respect of essential requirements under other parts of article 3 of the R&TTE Directive [1] will apply to equipment within the scope of the present document.

NOTE 2: A list of such ENs is included on the web site: http://www.newapproach.org/.