The official presentation, on 31 May 2007, made by the Government and the Portuguese mobile operators, of programs e.escola (students from secondary school), e.professor (teachers from basic and secondary schools) and e.oportunidades (adult citizens registered in the New Opportunities initiative), aimed to provide over 600,000 Portuguese with laptop PCs featuring broadband Internet access.

TMN assumed publicly that it would deliver 300,000 laptop PCs with mobile broadband access over a three-year period. This number represents about half the Government program, comprising the three initiatives. At the end of November 2008, i.e. just one and a half years after the launch of the initiative, TMN had already surpassed the predicted goal.
A big contribution to this success came from the fact that TMN is the operator with the most diversified PC offering in terms of features, as the result of partnerships with several national and international brands. It should be recollected that TMN was the only operator to set up a distribution agreement with Insys, a national PC brand.

On the frontline of e.escola, TMN has been taking the project extensions of inclusion of new school years (on 10 March 2008, for students from the 11th and 12th school years; on 22 June 2008, for students from the 7th, 8th and 9th school years) as opportunities to present an even more diversified offering and to deliver the requested PCs to their recipients in as little time as possible.

In the beginning of October 2008, TMN launched the digital contract aiming to shorten the

e.escola program and TMN’s commitment

• 31 May 2007 – Official presentation, by the Government and the three Portuguese mobile operators, of e.escola, e.professor and e.oportunidades programs, which aim to provide over 600,000 Portuguese with PCs and Internet accesses.
  
  
• 21 July 2007 – TMN is the first operator to come forward with a concrete PC plus Internet access offering (laptop Fujitsu Siemens PC, model AMILO PRO V3515, and broadband USB 3,6 Mbps board) for 400 adult students from New Opportunities program.
  
  
• 24 July 2007 – TMN discloses its intention of supplying 300,000 PCs with broadband access over a tree-year-period, at a press conference.
  
  
• 1 September 2007 – PT’s mobile operator announces the distribution of another 1,000 laptop PCs with Internet access.
  
  
• 11 September 2007 – After the delivery of circa 1,500 laptops to adult students from the New Opportunities program, it announces at a press conference that it has already 60,000 registrations in the e.escola program.
  
  
• 15 January 2008 – TMN and Fujitsu Siemens Computers celebrate the delivery of laptop number 50,000 from Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
  
  
• 10 March 2008 – TMN discloses the e.escola program extension to students of the 11th and 12th school years, as it simultaneously increases the mobile Internet access speed (the download speed is increased from 384 kbps to 512 kbps in the case of Banda Larga Light tariff and from 640 kbps to 1 Mbps for Banda Larga tariff). TMN also announces that it is the only operator on the market to provide four different laptop suppliers - Toshiba, HP, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Insys (sole operator with a Portuguese brand) - in the scope of e.escola program.
  
  
• 24 April 2008 – Delivery of laptop PC number 3,500 in Madeira.
  
  
• 30 April 2008 – TMN announces e.escola program extension to 1,200 youngster and student associations throughout the country, highlighting its delivery of over 130,000 laptop PCs with Internet access in just 3 months.
  
  
• 15 May 2008 – TMN extends its offering – up to then composed of four suppliers: Toshiba, HP, Fujitsu Siemens and Insys – to include ACER, with model Extensa 5620Z featuring 320 GB HDD.
  
  
• 4 June 2008 – TMN announces that it is the only operator to provide laptop PCs with over 300 GB HDD and 3 GB RAM as well as the sole operator offering a national laptop brand, model Insys Game Force, as of this date.
  
  
• 22 June 2008 – TMN extends e.escola program to students from the 7th, 8th and 9th school years.
  
  
• 23 September 2008 – TMN extends and diversifies its offering in the scope of e.escola, available now for every student from the 5th to the 12th school years. TMN also announces the most diversified offering as well as the most competitive one, including, among others, the laptop PC featuring the most performant CPU, the ACER Extensa 5620, the only model with a HD Ready monitor, three models with dedicated graphics board and the only one offering two models with 6GB RAM (up to now the RAM available amounted to only 3 GB). TMN positions itself on this date as the only operator offering open software, on the Insys Game Force, equipped with Linux Magic Box 12 and Open Office. After a qualitative jump, compared to the offering presented during school year 2007/2008, TMN presents seven laptop PC models: ASUS X50 SL, ACER EXTENSA 5620 Z, ACER EXTENSA 5620 (Intel T8300), FSC ESPRIMO MOBILE V6535, TOSHIBA L300, INSYS StyleNote 8746S and INSYS.t GameForce HD 8761SU.
  
  
• 2 October 2008 – Launch of the digital contract, allowing the e.escola registration process to be done without papers or bureaucracy. Once the digital contract is made, it becomes then possible to receive the laptop PC at home or fetch it personally at once from one of four TMN retail outlets (Faro, Lisbon, Porto and Setúbal). TMN increases the number of models available to eight, by presenting a new PC: Insys Style-3G 8724SR 12".
  
  
• 28 December 2008 – TMN announces the delivery of over 300,000 PCs with broadband access, in half the time predicted.