- Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais
Infobox_Company
company_name = Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais, S.A.
company_type =Private company
company_
company_slogan = Até já (See you soon)
foundation =March 22 ,1989
location = flagicon|PortugalLisbon ,Portugal
industry =Telecommunications
products =Telecommunications
parent =Portugal Telecom
key_people =Zeinal Bava ,CEO
homepage = [http://www.tmn.pt/portal/site/tmn www.tmn.pt]TMN - Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais, S.A., headquartered in
Lisbon , isPortugal 's firstmobile communications company, both chronologically and in market share.Chronology
1991
*Created onMarch 22 , to take on the only existing mobile service in Portugal, based on an analogue network launched in1989 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 throughGSM . 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".
* OnOctober 8 , the GSM service was commercially launched.1993
* In May, the firstroaming call was made.
* In October, TMN launched the voice mail service for free to all customers.1994
* TMN was incorporated intoPortugal 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 theMadeira island.
* In September, launch of MIMO, the world's firstprepaid 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 theAzores .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: Optimus1999
* 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 forFixed phone services, with prefix "1096". TMN would only offer this service to its corporate customers, backed on its parent company'slandline 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 ofVodafone live! , launched in November 2005.2005
* OnSeptember 28 , TMN introduced a new logo, shown above.logan
*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
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