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The new Number Portability Regulation was published on 9 January 2025 with the aim of improving, harmonising and standardising the rules applicable to number portability. The new Regulation maintains the principle.

Portugal began 2016 in a complex political and economic climate: a new Government, a new President and an economy still coming out of a deep crisis.

In this Circular, the APD instructs public and private entities that process personal data to "scrupulously" comply with the rules contained in (i) the Law on the Protection of Personal Data...

Although most artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the telecommunications sector are still at the development stage, AI is expected to play an important role in the sector in the medium term.

Recent case law from Portuguese courts addressed the issue of the use of the expression "unlimited" for telecommunications services offerings advertisements, involving the Portuguese Directorate-General of Consumer ...

Law no. 51/2011 was published on 13 September and came into force immediately on the following day. This law alters the legal rules on electronic communication networks and services for the sixth time.

Transmission services used in the provision of M2M services are growing in importance.

European Union Regulation 2019/1150, or the Platform-to-Business Regulation (also commonly known as the "P2B Regulation"), was the first piece of legislation...

The General Authorisation regime (GA) is an essential element of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and the Portuguese Electronic Communications Law1.

BEREC[1] has approved a proposal to amend the guidelines on the requirements that electronic communications networks must...

On 16 November, ANACOM, the national regulatory authority (NRA) in Portugal for communications, approved the Multi-Year Activity Plan for the three-year period 2024-2026 ("Plan").

EU Directive 2024/1799 ("Directive") on common rules to promote the repair of goods was published on 13 June 2024. This new Directive amends Regulation...

From August 17 2013 onwards, only certain value-added message-based services (including SMS and MMS) must be barred by default, pursuant the Law 42/2013, of July, 3 that amended the Electronic Communications Law (Law 5/2004 of February 10).

Following ANACOM's public consultation on Digital Connectivity, the National Strategy for Connectivity in Very High Capacity Electronic Communications Networks (the "Strategy") for the period...

Following the recent approval of Decree-Law 20/2024 at the end of July 2024, the National Communications Authority (ANACOM) has launched a public consultation on the proposals to amend the Regulation for Access...

Directive (EU) 2019/882, also known as the European Accessibility Act, aims to improve the accessibility of products and services in the European Union...

ANACOM held a consultation between October and November 2022 to collect additional input on the possible creation of a specific range in the national numbering plan (NNP) to accommodate the provision of transmission services used to provide machine-to-machine (M2M)[1] services.