By decision of 23 February 2018, ANACOM has granted NOS Comunicações (NOS) exemption from the requirement to deliver the value of its required contribution to the universal service compensation fund in respect of the CLSU - Custos Líquidos do Serviço Universal (Net Costs of Universal Service) of 2016 (period following designation of the universal service provider by public tender). The value of this contribution is exceeded by the value of compensation that the company is entitled to receive as provider of the universal service of connection to a public communications network at a fixed location and of publicly available telephone services.
It is recalled that, by ANACOM decision of 26 January 2018https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1429246 identifying the undertakings required to contribute to the electronic communications universal service compensation fund and setting the value of the contributions relating to the CLSU - Custos Líquidos do Serviço Universal (Net Costs of Universal Service) to be compensated for the 2014 period (CLSU approved in 2016) and for 2016 (the period subsequent to the designation of universal service providers by public tender), NOS was designated as an undertaking bound to contribute to the compensation fund, whereas, as universal service provider, it is entitled to remuneration in respect of this provision.
Given these conditions, it was decided to grant the request put by NOS, on 22 February 2018, to be exempted from delivering the value of its contribution to the universal service compensation fund in respect of the CLSU 2016 (period subsequent to the designation of universal service providers by public tender).
Consult:
- Authorisation granting NOS Comunicações exemption from making contribution to the electronic communications universal service compensation fund in relation to CLSU 2016 https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1430400
