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Q-Free awarded exclusive toll tag contract in Portugal

Q-Free is to supply toll tags to Portuguese tag service provider Via Verde, part of the BRISA Group, under an exclusive three-year frame agreement valued at around US$9-11 million (NOK75-90 million). Delivery will begin immediately. Via Verde is the leading DSRC tag service provider in Portugal with more than three million active customers. Q-Free, which has delivered approximately four million tags to Portugal over the years and expects demand to be significant in the coming
August 3, 2016 Read time: 1 min
108 Q-Free is to supply toll tags to Portuguese tag service provider 3843 Via Verde, part of the 2051 BRISA Group, under an exclusive three-year frame agreement valued at around US$9-11 million (NOK75-90 million). Delivery will begin immediately.

Via Verde is the leading DSRC tag service provider in Portugal with more than three million active customers.

Q-Free, which has delivered approximately four million tags to Portugal over the years and expects demand to be significant in the coming years, sees the Portuguese market as highly important.

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