Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais

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Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais, S.A.

Type	Private company
Founded	March 22, 1989
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Key people	Zeinal Bava, CEO
Industry	Telecommunications
Products	Telecommunications
Parent	Portugal Telecom
Website	www.tmn.pt

TMN - Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais, S.A., headquartered in Lisbon, is Portugal's first mobile communications company, both chronologically and in market share.

[edit] Chronology

1991

Created on March 22, to take on the only existing mobile service in Portugal, based on an analogue network launched in 1989 by CTT (Portuguese Postal Service) and TLP (Lisbon and Oporto's phone service), both State companies. The network prefix was 0676.
In December, Marconi (Portuguese international phone service, also a State company) bought into the company; ownership became equally split among the three partners.

1992

In March, regulatory agency ICP-Instituto das Comunicações de Portugal (Communications Institute of Portugal) announced the winners of the public bids for two licenses for mobile services through GSM. One winner was TMN; the second winner was a private consortium formed for the bid, called Telecel (later bought by Vodafone).
In May, the first GSM call was placed. Prefix was 0936.
On October 8, the GSM service was commercially launched.

1993

In May, the first roaming call was made.
In October, TMN launched the voice mail service for free to all customers.

1994

TMN was incorporated into Portugal Telecom, the State-run telecom born from the merger of TLP, Marconi and Telecom Portugal (national phone service)

1995

Inauguration, in February, of the digital network in the Madeira island.
In September, launch of MIMO, the world's first prepaid mobile service.

1996

In April, a new logo was presented.
In June, launch of SPOT, a prepaid tariff for younger customers.
In July, inauguration of the digital network in the Azores.

1998

In April, TMN was the first Portuguese operator to adopt billing by the second as imposed by law.
TMN reached one million customers.
In September, second GSM competitor was launched: Optimus

1999

TMN reached two million customers. It got its second million customers in just one year, as opposed to nine years for the first million.
ICP granted to TMN a license for Fixed phone services, with prefix 1096. TMN would only offer this service to its corporate customers, backed on its parent company's landline network.

2000