ANACOM approved, by determination of 11 March 2009, the final decision on the conditions of the RIO 2009 (Reference Interconnection Offer of PT Comunicações (PTC) applying during 2009). Approval was likewise given, on the same date, to the report on the prior hearing which was held on the draft decision, adopted on 4 December 2008.
ANACOM considers that, with respect to the prices on the origination and termination of calls, ''there are grounds for maintaining the interconnection tariffs currently in force, which retain their currency, since several factors were taken into account upon their implementation in 2008, including the maintenance of a balance between the need to produce incentives for the development of own infrastructure, the promotion of effective competition, the need for the prices of interconnection to reflect the costs of interconnection, regardless of PTC's management policy and the positioning of the prices in PTC's reference offer in European context''.
With regard to other services, it was decided that PTC shall modify the RIO 2009, in order to introduce a set of amendments related to price caps (notably with respect to the activation of pre-selection and the interconnection of calls originating from PTC's payphones) with effect from 1 January 2009. The changes also involve the annual submission, together with information on the results of regulatory costing, of the breakdown of the costs of the billing and collection service (under the RIO), as well as the inclusion, in annex 5, of certain conditions for the 708xy range (the retail price and interconnection conditions).
ANACOM further decided that it will initiate a detailed investigation into the services of billing, charging and bad debt liability, portability, and pre-selection, and in the event that the results of this investigation give rise to significant changes to the currently prevailing conditions, amendments to the RIO will be determined, which amendments will have retroactive effect from 1 January 2009.
Consult:
- Amendments to the RIO 2009 https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=884441
See also:
- ANACOM approves 2009 interconnection prices https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=883779
