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.
Charging, Tolling & RUC

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