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China Telecom and Wireless 2400MHz, 5100MHz and 5800MHz radio equipment rules

Band-specific China radio management requirements, implementation timing, and equipment evidence for products using these bands.

Apply the China-specific band, antenna, interference, IPv6, model-approval, station-licensing and transition rules for equipment operating in 2400-2483.5 MHz, 5150-5350 MHz or 5725-5850 MHz.

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Sorena AI

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Jul 5, 2026

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Jul 24, 2026

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Sorena AI

Published Jul 5, 2026

Updated Jul 24, 2026

Overview

MIIT Notice No. 129 of 2021 governs 2400-2483.5 MHz, 5150-5350 MHz and 5725-5850 MHz as shared bands; it does not grant exclusive spectrum use. Identify the exact frequency, whether the product is radio transmitting equipment or a non-telecom industrial, scientific or medical device, antenna, EIRP, IP-address function and deployment environment before deciding model approval, technical controls and station licensing.

Section 1

Permitted uses and product approval

2400 MHz supports uses including wireless LAN, Bluetooth and point-to-point systems; 5100 MHz supports broadband wireless access including wireless LAN but is indoor-only and excludes automobiles; 5800 MHz supports broadband wireless access, point-to-point and electronic toll collection. The official interpretation identifies mobile terminals, household appliances, smart-vehicle products, wearables and healthcare electronics as representative products, but the finished equipment's transmitter and use still control the route.

RF units and antennas must be integrated or synchronously matched; users must not substitute antennas or add RF power amplifiers without authorization.
Obtain radio transmitting equipment model approval unless the equipment qualifies as micro-power short-range equipment or is a non-telecom industrial, scientific or medical device that produces RF energy for an industrial, scientific, medical or similar purpose. For 2400 MHz and 5800 MHz micro-power treatment, document the applicable F-class or G-class conditions in MIIT Announcement No. 52.
Applications from 15 October 2023 must use the notice's technical requirements.

Sources for this answer

MIIT notice on 2400MHz, 5100MHz and 5800MHz radio management

Official MIIT notice for band uses, integrated or matched antenna design, model approval and the 15 October 2023 technical transition.

Interpretation of the 2400MHz, 5100MHz and 5800MHz radio notice

Explains the policy changes, two-year product transition, interference controls and treatment of equipment already in use.

Section 2

Technical and interference controls

Equipment must meet the notice's attached RF and interference-avoidance requirements. The available avoidance methods include listen-before-talk, monitoring and avoidance, or an equivalent-occupancy method that adapts duty cycle and transmit power to keep equivalent occupancy no higher than 10 percent; record the method implemented in the production firmware.

5250-5350 MHz equipment requires dynamic frequency selection with no off option. Transmit power control must span at least 6 dB; equipment without TPC must reduce the stated EIRP and EIRP spectral-density limits by 3 dB.
Wireless LAN equipment with a public-IP-address allocation function must support IPv6 and enable IPv6 address allocation by default. Where national information-security requirements apply, air-interface access control must also meet the GB 15629 wireless-LAN security series.
5100 MHz stations must remain at least 3 km from the identified co-channel satellite earth stations.
Unlicensed stations cannot generally claim interference protection and must stop if they cause harmful interference until it is eliminated.

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MIIT notice on 2400MHz, 5100MHz and 5800MHz radio management

Official source for TPC, DFS, interference-avoidance, IPv6, GB 15629, earth-station separation and interference conditions.

Section 3

When a station licence is required

Model approval concerns the equipment. A station licence is a separate deployment decision.

A provincial station licence is required only when both conditions are met: the wireless LAN access point, broadband-access central station or point-to-point station is outdoors, and EIRP exceeds 20 dBm in 2400 MHz or 30 dBm in 5800 MHz.
If either cumulative condition is absent, or the equipment is another use covered by the notice, the notice treats the deployment by reference to terrestrial public mobile-terminal management and does not require a station licence. Other sector or location rules may still apply.
Record the actual deployment environment and power; do not decide this from laboratory certification alone.

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MIIT notice on 2400MHz, 5100MHz and 5800MHz radio management

Official source for the cumulative outdoor-plus-EIRP station-licence test and the treatment of other deployments.

Section 4

Transition treatment

The notice took effect on 1 January 2022 but provided a two-year product transition.

Before 15 October 2023, equipment meeting prior rules but not the new technical requirements could still seek model approval or extension under the prior rules.
Equipment already put into use under the transition may continue until scrapped.
Model-approval validity governs production, import, sale and use in China; it does not impose a separate end date on consumers' use of already-deployed equipment.

Sources for this answer

Interpretation of the 2400MHz, 5100MHz and 5800MHz radio notice

Explains the policy changes, two-year product transition, interference controls and treatment of equipment already in use.

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