The communications regulator imposed on MEO, US and Vodafone the obligation to extend the coverage.
the national Communications Authority (ANACOM) decided to impose the three operators’ additional obligations mobile broadband coverage of the national territory, following the renewal of licenses of these operators for another 15 years, “said ANACOM in a statement .
According to the regulator, has already been approved “a list of 588 parishes potentially without mobile broadband that will have to go to have this type of coverage.”
the aim of the measure, “is to bring mobile broadband to more people and areas whose coverage would be more difficult to achieve if the operators were moving only by strictly commercial interests.”
ANACOM decision stipulates that each of the mobile operators should cover 196 of the parishes covered, having a year to communicate the regulator the agreement reached on the division of parishes together.
If there is no agreement between the operators, regulator will make a draw “to determine the order in which operators choose the parishes,” the statement said.
the renewal of licenses of mobile operators for over 15 years will take effect from 2018, providing operators a year after that renewal, to ensure that all the parishes are covered with mobile broadband.
These 588 parishes will join the 480 parishes that mobile operators were obliged to cover with band wide mobile, “following the multiband auction regulation in which tendered spectrum for 4th generation mobile (4G).”
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