In its first 24 hours of operation, the mobile telephone price simulator launched by the ANACOM received in its Tariff Monitor 7,112 users. In total almost 23 thousand operations were made.
According to data from ICP-ANACOM, on average, each user made three simulation operations. Per minute, an average of 15 operations took place.
Access to the simulator, at www.anacom.pthttps://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?categoryName=CATEGORY_ROOT&languageId=1, is available to all interested parties. (This service is available in portuguese).
The simulator, developed by the industry's regulator, aims at overcoming a deficiency that stems from the great difficulty that consumers have in comparing telecommunications prices, due to lack of time, unfamiliarity with all the tariff offers on the market and, in some cases, to difficulties in defining their own user profile. The mobile service, namely, has an enormous diversity in tariffs - about 30 tariffs available for subscription and about as many that can no longer be subscribed but that continue in use for customers who had previously chosen them.
ANACOM's simulator is initially launched with the comparison of national mobile service calls, but it will later include SMS, MMS, Internet and indirect service prices. It will also be able to compare between different platforms, namely between fixed and mobile services; between segments, such as the residential and business ones. It will also allow the graphic display of results.
Consult:
- COM.escolha https://www.anacom.pt/tarifarios/
