In its letter of 01.07.2013, MEO referred that all information contained therein was deemed to be «information of a specific and specialized technical nature, protected by PTC’s intellectual property rights, and furthermore it [concerned]», in its opinion, «the network operation’s procedures, strategies, methodologies and data, involving PT Comunicações’ legally protected business interests, and for this reason they should remain exclusively under its control.» The company supported also that elements concerned, in annex to the letter, involved MEO’s commercial and industrial secrets, being, as such, confidential in nature.
In its letter submitted on 11.11.2013, MEO reiterated that all information provided in that communication had a «confidential nature1, as it contained commercial and business secrets, as well as information on the company’s internal life and procedures, and as such it should not be disclosed/published, in full or in part, without [MEO’s] prior and written authorization».
1 Including: (i) information on the detailed identification of DTT and DTH geographic coverage currently provided, including coverage provided by current overlay network transmitters (Point 1.1 of letter dated 11.11.2013), (ii) detailed information of population effectively covered by DTT (Point 1.2 of letter dated 11.11.2013), (iii) information on the quantification of error associated to DTT coverage (Point 1.3 of letter dated 11.11.2013), (iv) information on network optimization actions (Point 2 of letter dated 11.11.2013), as well as (v) comparison of results presented by MEO and ANACOM (Annex 1 to letter dated 11.11.2013), (vi) population distribution in MEO’s tool on parishes listed in point 1.2.III of ANACOM’s letter of 25.10.2013 (Annex 2 of letter dated 11.11.2013) and (vii) a CD with licensing information concerning the 3 MFN transmitters and up-to-date coverage information.
