Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais
TMN – Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais, S.A., headquartered in Lisbon, is Portugal's first mobile communications company, both chronologically and in market share.
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 TLP (Lisbon and Oporto's phone service) and CTT (Portuguese Postal Service/national 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 (spin-off from CTT).
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, third 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
- Prefix of TMN was changed to 96 as part of an overall restructuring of the national numbering system.
2003
- In June, TMN launched a mobile portal, i9 (pronounced innov), on the trail of Vodafone live!, launched in November 2005.
2005
- On September 28, TMN introduced a new logo, shown above.
From the start of the 2008–2009 Season of the Liga Sagres, tmn has been the shirt sponsor for SL Benfica, FC Porto & Sporting Lisbon.
Slogan
- Until 2005: "Mais perto do que é importante" (Closer to what is important)
- 2005–present: "Até já" (See you soon).
CEOs
- 1992–1996: Romão Mateus
- 1996–2005: Iriarte Esteves
- 2005–present: Zeinal Bava