Following approval, after the public consultation on 17 January 2008, of the decision on limiting the number of frequency usage rights to be allocated in the 450 MHz band for the provision of the publicly available mobile telephone service (MTS), on the definition of the allocation procedure and on the possibility of the provision of the MTS in the same band by the providers of the mobile trunking service (MTS), on August 7, 2008, again following public consultation, approval was likewise given to the respective reports, the public tender regulation - Regulation no. 474/2008 of 22 August - and the respective tender specifications.
The public act of opening the tender applications was held on 6 October 2008, with an application presented by only one competitor - RNT - Rede Nacional de Telecomunicações, S.A. 1 (RNT).
1 It is noted that in 2009, ICP-ANACOM approved the proposal, submitted by the Tender Committee to allocate the right to use frequencies to RNT, while later repealing the act of granting the right of use in question.
