December 13, 2024 Administrative Guidance on Specified Radio Equipment Manufactured and Sold by Sony Corporation

 The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) discovered that Sony Corporation (Representative Director, President and CEO: MAKI Kimio, Corporate Number: 7010401045660, Head Office: Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo) had violated its obligation to conform to construction design under the Radio Act (Act No. 131 of 1950) concerning certain specified radio equipment manufactured and sold by the company. Today, we rendered administrative guidance to the company, a certified dealer, to take necessary actions, including measures to prevent recurrence.

1. Case Overview

 It was found that the mobile phone terminals manufactured and sold by Sony Corporation use an antenna that is not approved in the certified construction design and may emit radio waves.
 As a certified dealer, the company violated its obligation to conform to construction design as stipulated in Article 38-25 of the Radio Act.

2. Content of guidance

 The MIC today issued a strict warning to Sony Corporation, and instructed the company to investigate and analyze the cause of the problem, consider measures to prevent recurrence, and then report back to the MIC by Tuesday, January 14, 2025.
 The company has reapplied for construction design certification for the mobile phone terminals in question. As of Friday, November 1, 2024, these terminals have been certified as conformity to the correct construction design. This indicates that the violations of the construction design conformity obligation for the mobile phone terminals in question, including those that have already been distributed, have been rectified.