PORTUGAL TELECOM : Qualified Holding - Wellington Management Company LLP

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Portugal Telecom, SGPS S.A. ("PT") informs that it was notified that Wellington Management Company, LLP ("Wellington") now holds less than 2% of the voting rights corresponding to the share capital of PT.

Such new holding resulted from the disposal, by Wellington, on behalf of its clients (with which Wellington has entered into an agreement for the exercise of the respective voting rights), on 4 October 2013, on the regulated market of Euronext Lisbon, of a total of 2,733,197 PT shares.

Additionally, PT was informed that, as a result of the above mentioned transaction, a holding corresponding to 15,835,026 ordinary shares representing 1.77% of PT's share capital and corresponding voting rights is now attributed to Wellington.

This statement is pursuant to the terms and for the purposes of article 17 of the Portuguese Securities Code and the Portuguese Securities Commission Regulation no. 5/2008, following a communication received from Wellington Management Company LLP, with registered office at 280 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, USA.

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