Residential Price Table for Fixed Line Telephone Service
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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006 :: NO. 66 P 2 : CURRENT EVENTS P 4 : PORTED NUMBERS P 3 : RADIATION MEASUREMENT REGULATION APPROVED P 5 : EUROPEAN UNION P 3 : CTT – PRICE AND QUALITY CONVENTION P 8 : WORLD POST DAY Contents SONAECOM BID FOR PT – INVITATION TO STATE POSITIONS The Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) has asked potential prior hearing of all interested parties would be extremely useful before issuing interested parties to express in writing, by 9 October 2006 (deadline later exten- this Authority’s final opinion on the said operation. (+info) ded to 11 October), their position vis-à-vis the merger operation resulting from This Authority’s previous communication on the process of thorough investi- Sonaecom’s takeover of Portugal Telecom and PT Multimédia. The invitation was gation of the merger operation involving Sonaecom and Portugal Telecom is also decided by a determination dated 29 September 2006, bearing in mind that the available for consultation. (+info) RESIDENTIAL PRICE TABLE FOR FIXED LINE TELEPHONE SERVICE In a draft decision dated 28 September ANACOM determined that it would not after an ANACOM determination confirming that the Grupo PT companies have oppose the proposal to modify the residential tariff for telephone service sup- fulfilled the conditions associated to the provision of offers combining traffic and plied at a fixed location (FTS) under universal service, submitted by PT Comuni- network line in one single price. This determination is under public consultation cações (PTC) on 28 August 2006, as long as certain conditions are fully and until 2 November 2006; interested parties are asked to submit their comments, cumulatively accomplished. Among them, the price table will only take effect preferably by electronic mail to [email protected] . (+info) VODAFONE PORTUGAL “HOMEPHONE” ANACOM approved in a determination dated 14 September 2006 the draft deci- as a set of compulsory conditions are fulfilled. The determination was submitted sion concerning the supply of electronic communication services designated as to the prior hearing of Vodafone Portugal and the company given ten days to “Homephone”, submitted by Vodafone Portugal on 8 August. This draft decision give its position. Other interested parties, namely users and consumers, were allows the use of the Vodafone Portugal land mobile network’s GSM and UMTS also given, in place of public consultation, ten working days (until 28 September) frequencies in the local access network for the provision of fixed site telephone to comment (preferably by electronic mail to [email protected] ). (+info) service by the company, with the typical features of the service rendered, as long WORKSHOPS ON THE COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR ANACOM plans to regularly conduct workshops in which academic and consultancy projects or works involving the communication sector will be presented and debated. The initiative gets under way with a series of three events scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2006. ANACOM’s aim is to encourage the knowledge, reflection and discussion of diverse topics of interest for the sector, especially those related to its regulatory activity. (+info) The first workshop was held on 3 October in Lisbon, with presentation of the study on “Prices and Price-cost Margins of Mobile Voice Services”, by professors Ricardo Cabral and Corrado Andini of the University of Madeira and Henry Chappell of the University of South Carolina in the USA. Available on-line, the study is the exclusive responsibility of its authors and does not commit or set out any position of ANACOM. The work was carried out per the call to submit studies launched by this Authority in 2005 at various national universities. (+info) SPECTRU IS PUBLISHED BY : ICP - Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) HEADQUARTERS : Av. José Malhoa, 12 - 1099-017 Lisboa . www.anacom.pt . [email protected] DIRECTOR : Fátima A. Botelho PRODUCTION MANAGER : companhia dos riscos, design lda 2 COMMUNICATIONS IN PORTUGAL CURRENT EVENTS CHANGES TO THE LEASED LINES REFERENCE OFFER APPROVED of powers of the members of the Board of Directors in management were appro- The Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) approved in a determi- ved, decisions which were published in the Diário da República (2nd Series) on nation dated 7 September 2006 the decision concerning the leased lines refe- 4 October. (+info) rence offer (LLRO), which ordered PT Comunicações (PTC) to amend said ins- trument within ten working days. The changes in question included the following NATIONAL NUMBERING PLAN PTC obligations: the company must inform 30 days beforehand the operator or Information on the summarised national numbering plan (NNP) has been upda- provider of the service involved of any interruption or suspension of services for ted with respect to telephone service publicly available at a fixed site, nomad non-payment for the contracted services; it must also commit to paying com- VoIP service, voice mail service and shared cost call service. pensation for non-compliance, as long as the service’s operator or provider has (+info, Portuguese only) provided the service forecast plans; and must also take into account a set of maximum prices. The report from the prior hearing of interested parties is an HIRING – HOLDER OF ENGINEERING DEGREE integral part of this decision. (+info) ANACOM is seeking to hire for its Lisbon headquarters the holder of a licen- ciatura degree in electronic engineering, with candidates asked to submit their 2005 REGULATION REPORT information by 15 October 2006. The job in question concerns the carrying out of The 2005 ANACOM Regulation Report has been available since 10 August, thus duties involving issues related to spectrum management and planning. fulfilling the provisions of this Authority’s statutes, approved by Decree-Law no. (+info, Portuguese only) 309/2001 of 7 December. This edition is divided into three different parts: the Regulation Report, the Situation of Communications and the Activities Report. FCCN REACHES 100,000 .pt DOMAIN REGISTRATIONS The first presents the main aspects orienting the regulator’s activity, as well as The Foundation for National Scientific Computation (FCCN), the body which the description of how ANACOM’s activities were conducted in 2005 in order to oversees the service of registering .pt domains, announced on 9 August that achieve its aims. The second part, which had been published separately on-line, it had topped 100,000 .pt domain registrations, a goal it had only expected to describes the most notable features of the communications sector in Portugal achieve by the end of 2006. Most of the registrations were in the .pt domain (71 and its performance during the course of the analysis period. ANACOM’s activi- percent), followed by the .com.pt domain (19 percent) and edu.pt (8.9 percent). ties in 2005, grouped by its three main functional areas, make up the third part. (+info, Portuguese only) (+info) The ANACOM Report and Accounts for 2005 was also released on the same AdC RULES AGAINST SIC, PT MULTIMÉDIA AND TV CABO date. (+info) The Competition Authority (AdC – Autoridade da Concorrência) has ruled that the contract signed by SIC, PT Multimédia and TV Cabo, a so-called “Partnership NEW TRAINERS FOR TELECOMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURES Agreement”, contains clauses that limit competition. The AdC has thus ruled IN BUILDINGS that the companies must pay a total fine of 3.04 million euros and has ordered ANACOM approved by determination dated 21 September 2005 the designation them to amend the contract, eliminating the anti-competitive clauses. of CIFOTIE (Centro Internacional de Formação dos Trabalhadores da Industria (+info, Portuguese only) e Energia) as a training entity for telecommunications infrastructures in buil- dings (the Portuguese acronym is ITED) able to give authorised courses to elec- SIRESP USERS EXEMPT FROM FEES tricians about the installation and conservation of ITED and ITED planning. This Decree-Law no. 167/2006 was published on 16 August and modifies article 19 designation is valid for three years after the date of respective approval, with the of Decree-Law no. 151-A/2000 of 20 July (see page 4). This change exempts company required to maintain the conditions existing at the designation date. from payment of the fees envisaged in section 1 of that provision, namely the (+info, Portuguese only) fees for the use of radio spectrum, those entities at any time involved in the On 10 August 2006 this Authority also designated FORPRO – Formação Profis- Portuguese Integrated System of Emergency and Security Networks (SIRESP), sional, C.R.L., as an ITED training entity. (+info, Portuguese only) specifically the management entity, the operator and its users, such as Civil Pro- On the same date it was determined that E.M. Soares, Lda., should be continue tection, the National Fire-fighters Service, the Army, the Portuguese Red Cross to be registered as an ITED training entity. (+info, Portuguese only) and the Directorate General of Forests, among others. (+info) ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENCE CASES WORKSHOP FOR AICEP UPPER MANAGEMENT Two new ANACOM decisions have been published regarding administrative The Portuguese Foundation for Communications in Lisbon will host on 23-25 offence cases in the area of personal data processing and privacy protection in October a workshop for upper management of the Association of Postal and Tele- electronic communications and postal services. (+info, Portuguese only) communications Operators in the