Introduction


By determination of 13 January 2011, ANACOM approved the draft decision amending its determination of 21 April 2006 on the object and form of public disclosure of the conditions of provision and use of electronic communication services.

This draft decision was submitted to the general consultation procedure pursuant to article 8 of Law number 5/2004, of 10 February (ECL).

Up to the expiry of the deadline for reception of comments (16.02.2011) in the scope of the general consultation procedure, positions were received from the following bodies:

  • Associação dos Consumidores de Portugal - ACOP - the Portuguese Consumer Association;

  • Associação Portuguesa para a Defesa do Consumidor - DECO - the Portuguese Consumer Protection Association;

  • Associação dos Operadores de Telecomunicações - APRITEL - Association of Telecommunications Operators;

  • Correios de Portugal, S.A. - CTT;

  • Federação Nacional das Cooperativas de Consumidores - FENACOOP - National Consumer's Cooperative Federation;

  • Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A. (PT) that addressed the matter on behalf of PT Comunicações, S.A., PT Prime - Soluções Empresariais de Telecomunicações e Sistemas de Informação, S.A. and TMN - Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais, S.A., in which it has shareholdings;

  • União Geral de Consumidores - UGC - General Consumer Union;

  • Vodafone Portugal - Comunicações Pessoais, S.A. - Vodafone;

  • ZON TV Cabo Portugal, S.A. (Zon), on behalf of companies in which it has shareholdings.

This report includes a summary of positions expressed in the matter of the draft decision submitted to consultation, as well as this Authority's views thereon.

Given the synthetic nature of this document, its analysis is without prejudice to the consultation of the referred responses, which will be made available at ICP-ANACOM's website together with this report, as far as confidentiality has not been requested.

This report is deemed to be an integral part of the final decision amending determination of 21 April 2006 on the object and form of public disclosure of conditions of provision and use of electronic communication services.