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 September 2007

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.

Form 20-F  x   Form 40-F  o

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.

Yes  o   No  x

 

 

 


RELEASE                                                                                                                                 

 

 

Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A.

 

Public Company

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

Share Capital: Euro 33,865,695

Registered in the Commercial Registry Office of Lisbon

and Corporation no. 503 215 058

 

 

 

Acquisition of own shares

 

 

Lisbon, Portugal, 28 September 2007 — Pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of the Regulation (EC) no. 2273/2003 of the Commission, of 22 December 2003, and of subparagraph a) of no.1 of article 11 of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission Regulation no. 04/2004, Portugal Telecom (PT) informs that, under the terms of the share buyback programme approved at the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 27 April 2007, acquired today 103,056,500 PT shares listed on the Eurolist by Euronext Lisbon, equivalent to 9.13% of PT’s share capital.

 

The abovementioned acquisition was executed over the counter, on the following terms:

 

>                      53,279,259 PT shares at an average price of Euro 10.1521

>                      23,672,937 PT shares at an average price of Euro 10.2058

>                      26,104,304 PT shares at an average price of Euro 10.2578

 

These transactions resulted from the exercise of the physical settlement option included under the terms of equity swap contracts established with Goldman Sachs International, Barclays Bank Plc and Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited.

 

After these transactions PT holds 103,056,500 own shares, corresponding to 9.13% of its share capital and equivalent to Euro 1.05 billion. As a result, the total number of shares to consider for purposes of determining the percentage of voting rights held in PT is 1,025,800,000 shares.

 

This information is also available on PT’s IR website http://ir.telecom.pt.

 


 

 

 

Contact:

 

Nuno Prego, Investor Relations Director

 

 

nuno.prego@telecom.pt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portugal Telecom

 

 

Tel: +351 21 500 1701

 

 

Fax: +351 21 500 0800

 

 

 

 

Portugal Telecom is listed on the Euronext and New York Stock Exchanges. Information may be accessed on the Reuters under the symbols PTC.LS and PT and on Bloomberg under the symbol PTC PL.

 


 


 

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: September 28, 2007

 

PORTUGAL TELECOM, SGPS, S.A.

 

 

 

By:

/s/  Nuno Prego

 

 

 

Nuno Prego
Investor Relations Director

 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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