Prepared (also subject responsible if other) ERAWALA Approved BNEPBAJD Checked Reference No. EXHIBIT 13 Date 2021-05-05 Rev B 1 (1) Federal Communications Commission Authorization & Evaluation Division 7435 Oakland Mills Road Columbia, Maryland 21046, USA Attention: Equipment Authorization Branch Subject: Request for Long term Confidentiality:
FCC ID: TA8AKRD901168 To whom it may concern:
We, Ericsson AB, hereby request that the Exhibits/Items listed below be withheld from public inspection in accordance to sections 0.457 and 0.459 of the Commissions Rules for FCC. This due to the following reasons:
Ericsson Base Stations (BS) are designed strictly based on the technical specifications of the international project 3GPP (the 3rd Generation Partnership Project). The competition in this field is very intense and a less advanced solution/design could get an unfair advantage by accessing the information as listed below from common domain. As we believe that we have implemented groundbreaking solutions and designs into our recent BS/Radio Unit
(RU) / Remote Radio Unit (RRU) / Antenna Integrated Radio (AIR) / Street Macro (SM) / Radio Dot (RD) compared to the previous BS/RU/RRU/AIR/SM/RD, the listed Exhibits/Items need to be protected from disclosure to our competitors in the industry. As the FCC records have in-depth information and a very wide distribution, we believe that you can understand our concerns. We are strong in our belief that all vendors in the industry need to compete by their own merits. We regard these Exhibits/Items to be our intellectual property and therefore as confidential information. There are advanced technical and design solutions/information in the Exhibits/Items, as mentioned above, that we regard as Ericsson proprietary, with actual and potential patents pending. The information can be advantageous to our competitors as well as sources seeking ways to hack past the built in security functionality. These solutions or information thereof are not accessible even for our customers or partners unless non-disclosure agreements for particular item(s) have been signed. Confidential product information can be found in, but not necessarily limited to, internal photos of the BS RU RRU AIR SM and RD, block diagrams, schematics diagrams, and parts lists as well as certain documents, such as the users manuals. Those documents can only be accessible by the customers who purchase out BS/RU/RRU/SM/RD and accept the conditions and therefore are provided with unique information access tools. Details for justification of Long term confidentiality under special conditions, according to KDB 726920, see document:
Circuit Description - LTC Manuals and Internal photos justification EXHIBIT 5 Schematics EXHIBIT 8 Manuals EXHIBIT 9 Internal Photos EXHIBIT 10 Parts List EXHIBIT 12 Technical Circuit Description
. Lars Wallin Quality and Release Management Regulatory Approval FCC Registration Number (FRN): 0013476155 Torshamnsgatan 23 SE-164 80 Stockholm Sweden Telephone No. +46 70 267 00 42 e-mail: lars.i.wallin@ericsson.com