By determination of 23 October, the Board of Directors of ANACOM approved the report of the public consultation on the provision of the Mobile Service with Shared Facilities (SMRP), using CDMA technology (Code Division Multiple Access), launched last May, following a request for the alteration of the respective licence, submitted by Radiomóvel - Telecomunicações, S.A. This report, now disclosed, was based on the 109 responses received, which shall be published by stages having regard to their amount.
According to the mentioned determination, the request submitted by Radiomóvel was granted, and concerned a one-year extension, up to 9 May 2004, of the time limit for the beginning of the operation of the Mobile Service with Shared Facilities (SMRP), using CDMA technology, an extension, up to 9 November 2004, of the time limit for the conclusion of the transition process from the MPT 1237 and TETRA technologies to the CDMA technology and the alteration of the time limits for the installation of the base stations from 2004 to 2005.
Therefore, pursuant to article18 of Decree-Law no. 381-A/97 of 30 December, the Board of Directors decided to endorse to the licence that qualifies Radiomóvel to provide the Mobile Service with Shared Facilities ? a service that allows the establishment of bi-directional communications, whether addressed or not, between closed user groups, through terminal equipment of a non-fixed nature, involving the establishment of communications with users of other telecommunication services of public use only where there is an interconnection with the fixed telephone service, the following:
Clause 10
1. The time limit for the beginning of the SMRP provision according to the CDMA technological system shall be extended up to 9 May 2004.
2. The time limit for the conclusion of the transition process from the MPT 1237 and TETRA technologies to the CDMA technology shall be extended up to 9 November 2004.
3. The time limits referred in the preceding paragraphs shall not be extendable and failure to comply shall determine the automatic expiry of the right to use the frequencies reserved for the CDMA technological system.
Clause 11
The time limits for the installation of the set of infrastructures for the SMPR provision according to the CDMA technology shall be as follows:
- 120 Base Stations up to 9 March 2004;
- 210 Base Stations up to 9 May 2005;
- 250 Base Stations up to 30 September 2005.
See also:
- Public consultation - Providing of Mobile Service with Shared Resources (SMRP-CDMA) https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=107598
Related information on ANACOM's website:
- Análise das respostas recebidas à consulta pública ''Prestação do Serviço Móvel com Recursos Partilhados com sistema de Acesso por Divisão de Códigos (SMRP-CDMA)'' https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=81850
- Consulta pública - Prestação do Serviço Móvel com Recursos Partilhados com sistema de Acesso por Divisão de Códigos (SMRP-CDMA) https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryId=65859
