SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 6-K

 

Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

For the month of January 2008

Commission File Number 1-13758

 

 

PORTUGAL TELECOM, SGPS, S.A.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40
1069 - 300 Lisboa, Portugal

(Address of principal executive office)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

 

 

 Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

 

 

RELEASE

 

Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A.

Public Company

Registered Offices: Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40, Lisboa

Share Capital: Euro 30,774,000

Registered in the Commercial Registry Office of Lisbon

and Corporation no. 503 215 058

 

Qualified Holding

 

Pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of article 17 of the Portuguese Securities Code (Código dos Valores Mobiliários or “CVM”), we inform that Deutsche Bank AG, a company incorporated under the laws of Germany, with registered office in Taunusanlage 12, Frankfurt am Main (“DB AG”) has notified Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A. (“PT”), that it now holds more than 2% (two percent) of the voting rights corresponding to the share capital of PT.

 

Such new qualified holding resulted from the acquisition of 18,558,181 (eighteen million, five hundred and fifty eight thousand, one hundred and eighty one) PT shares by DB AG on 18 December 2007, through an over the counter transaction. As a result of this acquisition, DB AG now holds, together with entities in a group or control relationship with it, 24,085,902 (forty four million, eighty five thousand and nine hundred and two) PT shares representing 2.35% (two point thirty five percent) of PT’s share capital and corresponding voting rights.

 

Additionally, PT was informed that this qualified holding is attributable to DB AG, directly or through entities in a control or group relationship with it, in the following terms:

 

Entities		No. of shares		% of capital		% of voting rights
						(according to article 16 of the CVM)
Deutsche Bank AG		20,038,832		1.95		1.95
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas		13,627		0.00		0.00
Deutsche Bank Asset Management Investmentgesellschaft mbH		26,466		0.00		0.00
Deutsche Asset Management (Japan) Limited		345		0.00		0.00
Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc		23,099		0.00		0.00
DWS Investment GmbH		3,750,011		0.37		0.37
DWS (Austria) Investmentgesellschaft mbH		24,723		0.00		0.00
DWS Investments (Spain) S.G.I.I.C., S.A.		197,799		0.03		0.03
Tilney Investment Management		11,000		0.00		0.00
Total		24,085,902		2.35		2.35

 

Lisbon, 7 January 2008

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: January 7, 2008

 

	PORTUGAL TELECOM, SGPS, S.A.
	By:		/s/ Nuno Prego
			Nuno Prego Investor Relations Director

 

 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

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