Provision of Directories and Enquiry Services (II)

Upon determination of 11 January 2001, and eliminating any doubts regarding certain obligations of Portugal Telecom, S.A. as the universal service provider, arising from Article 6 of Decree-Law no. 458/99, it was decided to advise PT to alter the formulated proposals, namely in relation:

- to the manner in which clients are presented in the telephone directories (firstly - in alphabetical order of the clients; secondly - in increasing order of the numbers, irrespective of the provider offering the service), and

- to the data collection files (so that it will only be obligatory to fill in information strictly necessary for service provision, i.e.: name of client, client's address - only for mobile access, telephone numbers, type of use - telephone/fax, installation address - only for fixed access, name to feature in the directory, address for distribution of the directory, date on which data was changed, identification of the provider).