Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUTEL) in Costa Rica has published RCS-141-2022 “Modificación parcial del procedimiento de homologación de terminales de telecomunicaciones móviles.”

According to the new regulation, for new applicants who wants to apply for homologation of mobile telecommunication terminals need to meet below requirements:

Cellular product applications will now require hard copies with Apostille stamps, and the Apostille exemption for cellular applications is no longer in effect.

Registration with the Dirección General de Calidad (DGC) must be updated every four years via a notarized declaration letter, companies already have registration will also need to perform this update every four years to maintain its validity.

RCS-141-2022 came into effect on June 16th, 2022, which revokes RCS-118-2021 released in last year.