A 10 million euro project led by Dstelecom, 75 percent EU-funded, aims to cover 25 to 50 percent of the mobile shadow zones in the Douro, Tâmega e Sousa, Alto Tâmega e Barroso and Trás-os-Montes regions.
Downdetector logged a peak above 7,200 fault reports at 18:19, and problems at NOS, Vodafone and Digi too. Portugal's cybersecurity regime has been in force since April, and it gives an operator 24 hours to file an initial notification with its sector regulator.
MEO and Thales have bid, via the Portuguese Space Agency, to supply satellite gateways for IRIS², the EU's €10.6 billion sovereign constellation and rival to Starlink. Their pitch leans on MEO's teleports at Alfouvar in Sintra and Santa Maria in the Azores, with more antennas planned.
Geneva and Viège tribunals froze Patrick Drahi's Cologny residence, Zermatt real estate and Swiss-company credits to cover Armando Pereira's CHF 1.2 billion (€1.3 billion) civil claim — Operação Picoas crosses the border on the eve of the Altice founder's empire sale.
NOS, the Portuguese telecom-and-media operator controlled by the Sonae and ZOPT structures, has dropped its first-quarter print for 2026 — and the headline reads through the storm tape. Net result climbs 4.7% to €62.0 million versus Q1 2025; EBITDA...
Sandra Maximiano's Anacom posts €38 million net profit for 2025 in the regulator's annual Relatório de Atividades, returning to the black after the €10.75 million 2023 trough and the provision-driven volatility — even as revenues drop 18% and the refund cycle to operators continues.
Anacom's three-month report on Storm Kristin pegs the residual outage at 20,000 fixed-service customers and logs 1,200 complaints over billing, broken appointments and contracts. Mobile is back; the access network will take many more weeks.
