Research and Markets: Portugal

In the mobile market, new rules were implemented for number portability to improve the receiving operators accountability towards the donor operator and end users, nd a new mobile termination rate (MTR) glidepath was proposed. Portugal continues to have an impressive mobile penetration (above the European average), and mobile broadband penetration during 2008 was already one of the highest in Europe, having experienced almost 60% growth during 2008-09.

The broadband front

On the broadband front, besides the approval of the markets 4 and 5 review by the EC in the first quarter of 2009, the planning of a framework in 2011 for the digital dividend and the recent auction of the frequencies allocated to broadband wireless access (BWA) are set to reduce the country's digital divide.