By decision of 22 July 2015, ANACOM has approved a draft decision on the wholesale broadcast market for delivery of content to end-users, including as regards the definition of product and geographic markets, assessment of significant market power (SMP) and the imposition, maintenance, amendment or withdrawal of regulatory obligations.
The wholesale market for free-of-charge digital terrestrial broadcasting to end-users was identified as relevant for the purposes of ex-ante regulation, and it is considered that MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia holds SMP in this market whereby a set of obligations are required.
This draft decision was submitted to the prior hearing of interested parties, in accordance with the Código de Procedimento Administrativo (Administrative Proceeding Code) as well as to the general consultation procedure laid down in Article 8 of LCE - Lei das Comunicações Eletrónicashttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=975162 (Electronic Communications Law). In both cases, interested parties are given a period 30 working days to respond (in writing and in Portuguese). As such, comments should be sent no later than 7 September 2015 by email to mercado18@anacom.ptmailto:mercado18@anacom.pt1.
Once the consultation process has been concluded, the contributions received will be made public. Therefore, for the purposes of publication on this website, interested parties should also submit a non-confidential version of their responses, excluding any items considered confidential.
1 Each email may contain one or more files as long as the total size of all files does not exceed 10 megabytes and, if necessary, comments may be divided into two or more emails.
Consult:
- Draft decision on the wholesale broadcast market for delivery of content to end-users https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1362516
Consult press release:
- Draft decision - ANACOM closes comprehensive investigation into DTT costs, concluding that the amount charged to television operators is not excessive https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1362518
