Anacom informs that telecommunications prices in Portugal have not changed in March
The Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (A Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações, March) that this Tuesday prices reported in Portugal was not changed in relation to this Tuesday the prices of the previous month.
Number communiqué disclosed on the website, the regulator mentions that, in March, “the prices of communications in its medium do not correspond to the consumer price sub-index (CPI), which changes compared to the consumer month”.
The association of electronic communications operators Apritel said this Tuesday that Portugal “leads in Europe in fixed broadband prices”, of “5.2% in the last 12 months”, against an increase of 0.9% in the European Union (EU) to 27.
In comparison”, with the same month of the previous year, “prices increased by 1.9% per cent (pp) lower than the growth of the CPI”, adds the sectoral regulator, noting that “the average definition rate” of the telecommunications prices in recent months was 1.1%, or 1.1 pp below the CPI (2.2%)”, Anacom adds.
In March 2022, “the telecommunications rate in Portugal was higher than in the European Union (+05 pp)”.
Anacom points out that “the average rate of telecommunications prices in Portugal in the last 12 months was the 10th highest (18th lowest) among EU countries”, with the country “where the highest O The increase in prices was for Slovakia (+5.6%) while the biggest increase did not occur in Bulgaria (-5.0%)”.
“EU TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRICES INCREASE 0.6%”
According to the regulator, “on average, telecommunications prices in the EU have increased by 0.6%”.
From a long-term perspective and in accumulated terms, “telecommunications prices have grown by 10.9% since the end of 2010, while the CPI has grown by 15.8%”, stresses the regulator.
Between 2019, “the 2019 sequence of prices from 20195 and higher than the CPI accumulation due to the ‘price accruals’ were accumulated by the main suppliers”.
As of May 2019, “the increase in the divergence between the two indices is mainly due to the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2018/1971 of the European and the Council, which imposed a maximum price on intra-city calls and SMS. HUH. If the 2010 reduction has not occurred, intra-EU calls are found, estimating 2010 prices, finding the final price, 3 pp below the CPI idea, 3 pp below the CPI idea in this period”, points to Anacom.
The regulator highlighted that between the end of 2009 and March, the prices of communications in the Portuguese market “increased by 8.9%, while in the EU they decreased by 9.6%”.
This difference “was narrowed with the entry into force on May 15, 2019 of the new European rules that regulate the prices of intra-EU communications”, Anacom, referring that “a finer comparative analysis shows that, Between the end of 2009 and March 2022, Telecommunications Prices in the Netherlands rose by 25.8% and 1.1% in Austria, while in Hungary and Portugal they increased by 1.3% and 8.9%, respectively”.
Anacom points out that varieties of minimum monthly fees such as “these are the monthly fees by Nowo in eight cases of a service/o while Meo and the services presented the lowest monthly fees for two/offers”, whereas Vodafone “presented the lowest monthly fee”. low for a service/offer type”.
In homologous terms, “there were 17 price increases and four decreases”.