By letter received on 26 October 2011, Optimus - Comunicações, S. A. (Optimus) submitted a request to ICP-ANACOM, pursuant to article 33 of Lei das Comunicações Eletrónicas (Electronic Communications Law) 1, that ICP-ANACOM grant renewal, for a period of 15 years, of the rights of use of frequencies allocated to the operator in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency bands for provision of the land mobile service, whose terms were defined in Right of Use of Frequencies ICP-ANACOM no. 01/2010.
To this purpose, Optimus stated that these frequencies have supported the provision of mobile services, especially services of voice and data up to 9600 bps, with national coverage [Start of Confidential Information] [End of Confidential Information] in terms of population and area, respectively, and also that it intends to continue to support part of its offer over these frequencies, in view of the offer of mobile services which make maximum use of the potential offered by the technologies available at any given time.
1 Law no. 5/2004 of 10 February, as amended by Law no. 51/2011 of 13 September.
