• 1520: King
Manuel I creates the public mail service of Portugal, the
Correio Público—
Public Post Office. • 1533: The first postal service regulations in Portugal. • 1753: The first financial mail regulations in Portugal. • 1821: The beginning of house-to-house mail delivery in Portugal. • 1880: The fusion of the Post Office and the Telegraphs Department into a single service, the
Department of Posts, Telegraphs and Lighthouses—
Direcção-Geral de Correios, Telégraphos e Faróis. • 1911: the department received administrative and financial autonomy from the Portuguese State and became the
General Administration of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones—
Administração-Geral dos Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones—adopting the
CTT acronym which was kept until today, even after several changes of its official name. • 1953: CTT adopts the horse rider logo. The logo represents an ancient
postman rider of the CTT, announcing his arrival with a bugle. The logo was redesigned three times, most recently in 2004. • 1969: CTT becomes a State Company, adopting the name
CTT Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal—
CTT Posts and Telecommunications of Portugal. • 1992: the
telecommunications companies (TLP, Marconi and TDP) service is separated from the CTT, becoming an autonomous company, when it created
Telecom Portugal S.A., later in 1994 it merged and created
Portugal Telecom (
PT Portugal) following the spin-off of CTT and in 2018 it moved this name of
Altice Portugal. At the same time, CTT becomes a
public limited company (with all shares owned by the Portuguese government), adopting the name
CTT Correios de Portugal—
CTT Posts of Portugal. • 30 November 2007: CTT launches Phone-ix, a
mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) operating on the
MEO network. • 2014: the CTT becomes an entirely private company. • 1 January 2019: CTT closes down Phone-ix. ==The CTT group==