On 21 December 2016, ANACOM approved the final decisions concerning the wholesale market for call termination on the public telephone network at a fixed location, setting out:
- the definition of the relevant market, significant market power (SMP), imposition, maintenance, amendment or withdrawal of regulatory obligations;
- and the fixed termination costing model.
It is considered that the wholesale markets for voice call termination on the public telephone network at a fixed location in Portugal are national and correspond to call termination at a fixed location on each of the individual networks, at the various network levels and regardless of transport technology or interconnection interface used.
ANACOM considers that all operators providing termination of voice calls on individual public telephone networks provided at a fixed location enjoy SMP in this market; this group of operators includes all those in possession of geographic and nomadic numbering resources (30 numbering range).
The obligations to which operators with SMP are subject include the obligation to control prices, with a maximum price that operators can charge for termination; this price is determined based on the results of the "pure" LRIC costing model developed for the purpose. The maximum price allowed for the termination of voice calls on fixed networks to be applied by fixed operators notified as having SMP, as from 10 days following approval of the final decision, is set at 0.0644 eurocents per minute (billing per second from the first second).
Consult:
- Wholesale market for call termination on the public telephone network at a fixed location and fixed termination costing model (market 1) https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1401971
- Consultation on the wholesale market for call termination on the public telephone network at a fixed location (market 1) https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1387422
Consult press release:
- ANACOM reduces fixed termination rates by 42% https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1402615
Related information on ANACOM's website:
- Consultation on the wholesale market of call termination on the public telephone network at a fixed location and the fixed termination costing model https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1289972
