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Operators required to extend mobile broadband to over 588 parishes

Anacom, the telecoms sector regulator, imposed additional obligations on Meo, the In and Vodafone mobile broadband coverage to over 588 parishes.

March 14, 2016 • Business

By Sara Ribeiro – Business Journal

Anacom has decided to impose new obligations on telecom operators mobile broadband coverage in the country.
according to a statement issued Monday by the industry regulator, Meo, the in and Vodafone will have to extend coverage to more 588 parishes.
this measure follows the renewal of licenses these operators for over 15 years, and aim 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,” the entity led by Fátima Barros .
according to Anacom’s decision, “each of the mobile operators should cover 196 listed parishes, providing a period of one year to communicate the agreement reached on the division of parishes together.” If
do not reach agreement, the regulator “decide on the distribution of the parishes by the three operators, using for this purpose to a random draw to determine the order in which operators choose the parishes,” explains Anacom in the same statement.
the renewal of the licenses of Meo, in and Vodafone for another 15 years will take effect from 2018, “providing operators the period of one year from that renewal to ensure that all the parishes are covered with mobile broadband.”
to comply with the new rules, operators will have to provide at least 75% of the population of a given parish a mobile broadband service that “enables a transmission speed of 30 Mbps (maximum download speed)” .
the new list of 588 parishes, added to the 480 parishes that mobile operators were obliged to cover with mobile broadband following the multiband auction for the 4th generation mobile (4G).

Anacom also states that “the use of the spectrum at the border is not currently constrained by the restrictions caused by Spain and Morocco, so operators can make the coverage of these parishes.” To do this, now have a period of six months to ensure 50% coverage of the 480 parishes and should cover all parishes within one year, he adds.

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