Considering the reasons explained in the previous points, the Management Board of ANACOM, under the terms of Articles 63, 64, 66 and 68 of the Electronic Communications Law (ECL), pursuant to Article 26(1)(q) of its Statutes, approved by Decree-Law 39/2015 of 16 March, following the determination of 21.12.2016, after market consultation about the draft decision approved on 4.8.2017 in the context of the public consultation and prior hearing of stakeholders, whose contributions were considered in the report on the public consultation and prior hearing of stakeholders, which was part of the draft decision and is an integral part of the present decision, and with the approval by decision of the Management Board of 16.11.2017 of the draft decision notified to the EC on 17.11.2017, on which the EC presented no comments, determines:
a. That MEO must ensure that the existence of a temporary IP GPI in Porto has no impact on IP interconnections, and that there will be no costs associated with it.
b. To establish that only smaller operators that are interconnected with MEO or become interconnected for purposes of the delivery of voice termination traffic, which is those who deliver MEO a monthly average of termination traffic not exceeding 5 million minutes, with reference to the overall termination traffic delivered by these operators to MEO in 2016 (or with respect to the first 12 months of activity if this started after 1.1.2016), may dispense with one of the types of redundancy, local or geographical. They are required, however, to guarantee a solution that ensures alternative traffic routing.
c. To establish that the operators mentioned in b) may choose to interconnect to a single MEO IP PGI, in which case they can deliver all termination traffic in that GPI, while, in this case, MEO can also deliver termination traffic in a single IP GPI of those operators.
d. To determine that no operator interconnected with another for the purpose of the delivery of voice termination traffic, or who becomes interconnected, can be required to interconnect with more than two IP GPIs of each operator.
e. That the overall migration timetable be reduced by six months, with MEO having 6 months to implement and configure the solution for IP interconnection in its network, being required to migrate 50% of the traffic terminated in its network to IP within the following 12 months, and the other 50% in the subsequent 6 months.
f. That traffic delivered in numbering ranges different from those identified by MEO under the process of migration to IP interconnection be returned to the originating operator to enable them to opt for other traffic delivery alternatives. MEO is required to present, in advance, the technical procedure to be adopted in those situations, to be agreed between the parties.
g. That termination traffic delivered by MEO to the other operators will also evolve in a way equivalent to that determined in e), with MEO being required to ensure that 50% of traffic will be delivered in IP by the end of the first 12 months after the 6-month testing period used by MEO to implement and configure the solution for IP interconnection in its network.
h. That MEO should specify the possibility of accepting values up to ¼ of the default values of the “eBGP” timers, as mentioned in point 2.2.3.
i. That MEO should define the quality of service indicators with reference to the indicators currently provided in RIO, such as those relating to network quality and availability and to the quality of circuits, the proposal being required also to establish what is needed to ensure the “BGP” routing protocol in situations of congestion related to an abnormal increase of traffic or other abnormal situations.
j. That MEO will include the IP interconnection proposal in RIO, with the changes determined and identified in the previous paragraphs, within 10 working days after the communication of the final decision to MEO, informing ANACOM of the modifications introduced and, in particular, any new elements that have not been explained in MEO’s proposal.
k. That MEO should update RIO so that the conditions of IP interconnection in own buildings include the models available for this interconnection, the respective implementation, and the reference to the use of other reference offers that are relevant in the context of IP interconnection, particularly RUO and RELLO,
l. That MEO will define an interconnection and testing plan with the operators that request IP interconnection, scheduling the tests in the order the operators’ interconnection requests are received, and being required to respond to operators requests from the moment that the IP interconnection proposal is included in RIO.
m. To determine that future changes to RIO relative to IP interconnection, notably involving specifications of a more technical nature not yet in the proposal, should, as far as possible, be agreed with the operators involved, and later communicated to ANACOM.
n. That the changes to RIO resulting from the inclusion of the IP interconnection proposal, modified according to the above provisions, should be carried out independently of what is to be specifically decided with regard to the process of migration of emergency communications.
