MEO (Portugal)
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| Service of Portugal Telecom | |
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Portugal Telecom |
| Headquarters | Av. Álvaro Pais, 2 - Lisboa |
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Area served
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Portugal |
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Key people
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Paulo Neves |
| Products |
Television Internet Telephone Mobile Phone |
| Services | MEO Fibra MEO ADSL MEO Satélite MEO Go MEO VideoClube |
| Owner |
PT Portugal (Altice) |
| Parent | MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia, S.A. |
| Subsidiaries | Sport TV (25%) |
| Website | www.meo.pt |
MEO is a mobile and fixed telecommunications service and brand from Portugal Telecom, managed by MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia. The service was piloted in Lisbon in 2006 and was later extended to Porto and Castelo Branco.
The commercial launch of the ADSL2+ service took place in June 2007. The satellite service began in April 2008, using the Hispasat satellite, soon followed by the FTTH service. The ADSL2+ and FTTH offers reached across Portugal and included broadband Internet services (at up to 400Mbit/s) as well as a telephone service.
MEO was officially founded after the separation of PT Comunicações and PT Multimédia (later ZON Multimédia). While PT Multimédia employed coaxial cables, after separation, MEO started making use of copper cables. The television service supplied by MEO within the copper cable network is served on the ADSL line.
In May 2009 PT Comunicações announced, after Terrestrial Digital Television (TDT) transmissions had started, that the triple play service was also available with fiber optic speeds can achieve 400 Mbit/s.
Another service relies on TDT, MEO TDT, which is included in the 3G plates service that is captured through the mobile internet signals from TDT. This service included one High Definition (HD) channel and the five main Portuguese channels: RTP 1, RTP 2, SIC, TVI e ARTV. MEO TDT service also allows some of the advantages found on the ADSL and Fiber Optic service (pause, record...).
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