On 17 January 2019, ANACOM approved a decision identifying the undertakings required to contribute to the electronic communications universal service compensation fund and determining the amount of the contributions in respect of the net costs of universal service (NCUS) to be compensated in respect of 2017.
As such, ANACOM determined:
- A review of the values of reported eligible turnover of some companies for the purposes of calculating overall sector turnover.
- The value of the sector’s overall eligible turnover (4,286,788,862.35 euros) in respect of 2017 for the purpose of Lei do Fundo (Fund Law)https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1136652.
- The list of undertakings and the value of each undertaking's contributions for the following purposes:
- compensation of the NCUS in respect of 2017, as provided by NOS Comunicações under the contracts concluded with the Portuguese State for the universal service provision of connection to a public communications network at a fixed location and publicly available telephone services;
- compensation of the NCUS in respect of 2017, as provided by MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia (MEO) under the contracts concluded with the Portuguese State for the universal service provision of public pay-telephones;
- compensation of the NCUS in respect of 2017, as provided by MEO under the contracts concluded with the Portuguese State for the universal service provision of a comprehensive telephone directory and a comprehensive directory enquiries service.
- Issue of the respective invoices/settlement notes in respect of the contributions identified above, payable no later than 20 working days following notification of the final decision.
Approval was also given to the report of the prior hearing to which the respective draft decision was submitted (Draft decision of 6 December 2018https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1465157).
Consult:
- Identification of undertakings required to contribute to the electronic communications universal service compensation fund and determination of the amount of contributions for 2017 https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1467710
