Alternative Portuguese telecommunications operators Sonaecom and Vodafone Portugal have signed an agreement regarding the sharing, construction, management, maintenance and operation of a next generation fibre optic network (NGN) in the main urban centres.The agreement will be implemented via a new company owned equally by Sonaecom and Vodafone Portugal and foresees the possibility of the NGN being available to other interested operators. Maintaining the competition between the two companies and their commercial independence of action, the agreement improves the economic rationale for investment in NGNs, with clear benefits to customers, to the development of the information and knowledge society and to Portugal.
