Compatibility of the RUO with the decisions of ANACOM

By determination of 28 of March of 2002, and pursuant to paragraphs 2 a) and 3 of article 4 of the EC Regulation 2887/2000 of the European Parliament and the Council, it was decided as follows:

1. PT Comunicações, having regard to the determination approved on June 28, 2001, shall alter within 20 days the Reference Offer for Local Loop Unbundling (RUO), published on March 1, 2002, including immediately the definition of procedures and terms, as well as prices, for the access to local sub-loop, which may be defined as a partial local loop connecting the network termination point at the subscriber's premises to a concentration point or a specified intermediate access point in the fixed public telephone network.

2. In accordance with the determination of November 22, 2001, PT Comunicações shall within 20 days alter the RUO, explicitly including the definition of procedures and terms for the access to the totality of the MDFs of its network, including the ones regarding the exchange remote units.

3. Furthermore, having noticed that the RUO does not conform to the afore mentioned determinations of June 28 and November 22, 2001, in what concerns the availability of reasonable terms for beneficiaries to visit the sites where collocation has been refused on grounds of lack of capacity, restricting namely, the visits to technical areas of the exchange in question, PT Comunicações shall alter the RUO within 20 days, removing thereby this restriction to the offer.

Having analyzed the RUO published on March 1, 2002, it has been further considered that some of the matters included therein lack clarification for the time being, without prejudice to the acknowledgement that others matters deserve, in parallel, a close follow-up. In this context, PT Comunicações has been requested, pursuant to article 8 of Decree-law no. 40/95 of February 15 to send, within 15 days, clarifications and comments on the matters under consideration.