Vodafone Group's Portugal division has signed a deal with Portugal Telecom to deploy and share fibre networks to 900,000 homes in Portugal.The company's agreement, via its Vodafone Portugal arm, will run for 25 years from December.Vodafone Portugal and Portugal Telecom will offer high-speed data services to an extra 450,000 homes and businesses each.Vodafone said the deal complements Vodafone Portugal's strategy and fibre-to-the-home deployment programme, which aims to reach 1.5m homes by mid-2015.The access, provided by the Portugal Telecom agreement, will enable Vodafone Portugal to offer high-speed broadband, fixed telephony and television services to almost 2m homes by the end of 2015.Philipp Humm, Vodafone's Chief Executive of Europe, said "this fibre sharing agreement is significant as it accelerates our fibre-to-the-home roll-out plans and enables us to bring converged products and services to almost half a million more homes and businesses across Portugal".RD