... the dominant position of the incumbent public telephone operator should not be reinforced by allowing it alone to invest heavily in those infrastructures (such as cable) which should be the main alternative carriers of telecommunications services.
Although the granting of a derogation to the Portuguese Government would foreclose the telecommunications market in Portugal during two years, the negative effect on the development of trade in the Community will be reduced due to ... the duration of the derogation requested: the establishment of new public telephony operators requires a preparation of many months.
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