Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
NOS, SGPS S.A. is a Portuguese telecommunications and media company which provides mobile and fixed telephony, cable television, satellite television and internet.The company resulted from the merger in 2013 of two of the country's major telecommunications companies: Zon Multimédia (formerly known as PT Multimédia, a spun-off media arm of Portugal Telecom) and Sonae's Optimus Telecommunications.
Sonae was founded in 1959 by the entrepreneur, banker and patron from Arouca, Afonso Pinto de Magalhães.The business group originated from the Sociedade Nacional de Estratificados, an industrial company operating in the area of processed wood, more specifically, in the production of decorative high-pressure laminated panels. [4]
Telecomunicações Móveis Nacionais (TMN), Portugal's first and largest mobile network operator, was later integrated into the MEO brand in 2014 after two of TMN's shareholders, Telefones de Lisboa e Porto (TLP) and Marconi Comunicações Internacionais (the Portuguese operations of the UK-based Marconi Company) were acquired by Portugal ...
It is one of the four triple play operators in Portugal along with MEO, NOS and Vodafone. [1] NOWO belongs to the Romanian company Digi Communications. [2] [3] [4] NOWO has mobile, 4G and wired telecommunication. It has a fiber optic network of around 14,000 km (~8,700 mi), covering more than 70 municipalities and 200 parishes in Portugal.
Optimus adopted the concept of pre-paid cards, which had been invented in Portugal [2] and was already a success with its competitors, by creating the Boomerang tariff plan. The very aggressive strategy used by Optimus to enter the Portuguese mobile telecommunications market paid off, attracting 700,000 customers in only one year of operation ...
The College Football Playoff starts and two other games serve as appetizers for the main course in the bowl matchups set for Dec. 20.
Mobiles similarly changed, with the digits 9T replacing the prefix 093T, where T is a digit specific to a mobile operator, that can be 1 (Telecel, now Vodafone Portugal), 0, 2 or 6 (TMN/MEO) or 3 (Optimus/NOS):
William J. Hennessy Jr., a veteran sketch artist who gave Americans striking views from inside courtrooms during some of the nation’s most important legal dramas, died on Monday.