the commercial provision for the general public of direct transport of telex messages in accordance with the relevant CCITT (Comité international télégraphique et téléphonique) recommendation to and from public switched network termination points, whereby any user can use equipment connected to such a network termination point to communicate with another termination point
As regards the provision of public telecommunications services and networks, it appears that Portugal Telecom is entrusted with a service of general economic interest pursuant to Section III of its Public Service Telecommunications Concession approved by Decree-Law No 40/95 of 15 February (8). Under its concession contract, Portugal Telecom has a universal service obligation in respect of the provision of fixed telephone, telex, telegraphy and data transmission services.
