Portugal is among the European countries with the best infrastructures of access to broadband, to Internet and to IPTV services. PT has strongly contributed to this reality, as it is the leader in the several broadband internet access platforms and it has maintained a high level of investment in upgrading the network and in launching services adapted to several consumer profiles.

We are experiencing today a real turning point in a wide group of areas in our life. We are contemporaneous of a world each time more dematerialized where we can multiply time and resources. Transferring information at 100 Mbps is not more than an industry evolution – it is a paradigm change. All these transformations have repercussions in our day-to-day life: at home, at school, in health, lifestyles and PT wishes to play an active role in such change.

The application of new technologies, namely the new fibre optic network, to the universe of education, healthcare, and security enables the creation and use of solutions that promote social sustainability. The three activities to which PT is specially committed are:

• Education - we are involved in a vast number of initiatives in all geographies where we operate and are involved in a vast set of initiatives in all geographies where we operate and that aim to promote access to education, info-inclusion and generation of talent, using communication technologies as a lever of change and progress;
• Healthcare - we are pioneers in the introduction of pilot-solutions that narrow the relationship between doctor and patient, eliminate the geographical factor as an element of social discrimination in access to healthcare and introduce new possibilities of diagnosis, clinical follow-up and process simplification;
• Security - we implemented a number of innovative solutions that promote critical information sharing between authorities and citizens, the correct and safe use of information technologies, new ways of relationship with police forces and geo-referenciation of equipments and people.