Meo (mobile phone company)

MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia, SA (the MEO ) is one of the big three Portuguese mobile operator. The operator founded by CTT, TLP and CPRM on 22 March 1991 was the first of its kind in Portugal. Today MEO is a subsidiary of the telecommunications company Portugal Telecom. By 2014, the company " TMN ", the abbreviation for Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais meant to German in about 'National Mobile Communications ".

History

The company was founded on 22 March 1991 by the three companies CTT Correios de Portugal, Telecomunicações de Lisboa e Porto and Companhia Portuguesa Rádio Marconi and was the first mobile operator in Portugal. In 1992, the first GSM phones were sold in Portugal. With the outsourcing of the telecommunications sector of the CTT in the new company Portugal Telecom and the 1994/1995 privatization in the parent company to TMN was no longer in government hands. 1998 TMN had already more than one million customers.

TMN was the first GPRS operator in Portugal, on 21 April 2004, the company also launched the first thing the UMTS technology in the Western European country. Since 2008, TMN sells mobile phones with HSDPA technology, also known as UMTS broadband. Likewise, TMN was the first company in Portugal, which sold prepaid cards.

Currently MEO is in the area of ​​mobile communications with a market share of 46.3 per cent market leader in Portugal, Vodafone Portugal and the small operator Optimus.

In January 2014, the owner, Portugal Telecom, announced that an expensive rebranding to bring together all the multimedia and communications businesses under one brand. Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia, SA ( MEO ) and offers mobile telephony, high-speed broadband Internet and prepaid TV on - Since then the company MEO means.