By determination of 19 May 2011, ANACOM has decided that all commercial practises which lead in any way the consumer to believe that a paid service should be subscribed in order to continue receiving free and unrestricted access television programme services, namely RTP1, RTP2, SIC and TVI, as well as RTP Açores and RTP Madeira in the respective Autonomous Regions, are prohibited.
This position has been taken after doorstep-selling situations and telephone calls were brought to public attention, in which, given the inevitable analogue switch-off, the subscription of a paid service was presented as the only solution to continue watching TV, clearly an unfair commercial practise pursuant to article 5, paragraph 1, of Decree-Law number 57/2008, of 26 March.
Source : www.anacom.pt/ [en ligne] Consulté le 30/05/2011
► Sur ce sujet, le centre de documentation propose notamment :
Pauwels C., Kalimo H., Donders K., and B. Van Rompuy : Rethinking European media and communications policy (Brussels, VUBPress, 2009)
