The Portuguese postal regulator, ICP, is opening up the postal sector to competition. “Postlog and Postexpresso are the first specialized Portuguese companies in urgent mail to be granted the titles by the National Regulatory Authority (Instituto de Comunicações de Portugal – ICP) to render postal services on a competitive basis. This fact by itself symbolizes and confirms CTT group as leader of the market.
Read MoreThe long-standing dispute over the future of Europe’s postal markets reaches a climax tomorrow at a council of EU telecommunications ministers in Luxembourg. EU leaders meeting in Lisbon in March 2000 all agreed to liberalise their markets in a bid to make the European economy more dynamic and competitive.
Belgium, which currently holds the EU presidency, is trying to cobble together a deal which would open 20 per cent of the postal markets to competition in 2006, compared to the present 3 per cent.
The long-standing dispute over the future of Europe’s postal markets reaches a climax tomorrow at a council of EU telecommunications ministers in Luxembourg.
EU leaders meeting in Lisbon in March 2000 all agreed to liberalise their markets in a bid to make the European economy more dynamic and competitive.
Belgium, which currently holds the EU presidency, is trying to cobble together a deal which would open 20 per cent of the postal markets to competition in 2006, compared to the present 3 per cent.
Read MoreAlthough growth rates are not has high as expected, business has been showing considerable growth and 2001 trends confirm this trend
Read MoreThe Portuguese government will install 254 internet kiosks at post offices throughout the country by the end of 2001.
The programme will receive investments of Es625m
Read MoreJune 8, 2001 — “Costs on Postal Services: Is it Possible to Use the Telecommunications Network as a Metaphor and Construct a Postal Cost Model through an Engineering Process?” by Jose Soares, Advisor to the Board of IPC, and Joao M. Confraria, Board Member of ICP (Instituto das Comunicações de Portugal); and Alberto Pimenta, Director, Strategic Development, CTT Correios de Portugal S.A., was presented at the Ninth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Sorrento, Italy.
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