Vodafone Portugal – Comunicações Pessoais, S.A., a full subsidiary of the Vodafone Group, is the second mobile operator in Portugal, both chronologically and in market share . Its competitors are Optimus and TMN. Vodafone Portugal was founded in 1991 as Telecel, Comunicações Pessoais, S.A. as it won the bid for Portugal's second GSM operator . The network went live in October 1992. In 1996, the "pre-paid" concept was introduced with the launch of tariff plan Vitamina. Telecel also held a paging license and was leader in the 4-player paging business, using the brand... Telechamada. In January 2000, the indirect access fixed-line telephone service was launched, using Portugal Telecom's infrastrutctures and the 1091 prefix. It used the brands toq 1091 and Voz Pri . In May of the same year, Telecel entered the Internet Service Provider and web portal businesses under the brand Netc .
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