3. Determination


Taking into account the analysis carried out and whereas:

(a) MEO is subject, as regards the leased lines offer, and further to the analysis of the wholesale market for high-quality electronic communications at a fixed location (access and trunk segments), to the obligation, among others, for price control, including the obligation for cost-orientation of prices;

(b) In that analysis, ANACOM determined that prices of MAM and Inter-island lines would be reviewed on an annual basis, in order to monitor compliance with this obligation,

ANACOM’s Management Board, in the scope of assignments provided for in points a), b) and h) of paragraph 1 of article 8 of ANACOM’s Statutes, approved by Decree-Law No. 39/2015, of 16 March, in the exercise of powers provided for in point a) of paragraph 1 of article 9 of its Statutes, and in the pursue of regulatory objectives and principles, especially the one provided for in point a) of paragraph 1 and in paragraph 6, both of article 5 of the Electronic Communications Law (ECL - Law No. 5/2004, of 10 February, as it currently stands), under paragraph 3 of article 68 of the ECL, and to implement measures determined further to the analysis of Market 4, hereby determines:

  1. To maintain prices (ceilings) of MAM and Inter-island lines, in the scope of the LLRO and RELLO offers, until the next annual review of referred prices.