Considering the interest stated, by several market players, in introducing BWA applications in Portugal, ICP-ANACOM launched in 2006 a pubic consultation on its introduction in Portugal. The corresponding report, approved on 14 June 2007, presents the conclusions and the action plan foreseen by ICP-ANACOM, considering several items, particularly frequency bands, technologies and types of use, spectrum allocation modes and indicative timetable.
As a consequence, ICP-ANACOM promoted, as per determination of 31 October 2007, a general consultation procedure on the draft decision regarding the setting of limits to the amount of rights of use reserved for BWA, in compliance with the general consultation procedure foreseen in article 8 of the ECL, for the 3.4-3.8 GHz the band. It also established the corresponding granting procedure, which analysis report approval and final decision took place in 2008, establishing, as foreseen, the granting of two rights of frequency use in the 3.4 3.6 GHz band and of two other in the 3.6-3.8 GHz band, for each of the areas defined in the Annex to the Administrative Rule no. 1026/2004 of 25 August, and setting an auction as the procedure to grant those rights.
