Onelink Communications, the San Juan metropolitan area’s main cable television provider, will be investing some $26 million in network upgrades in 2012, on top of the $184 million it has pumped into its network in the last six years, company officials said Tuesday.
In its most recent report on the impact of free trade zones across the U.S., the National Association of Foreign Trade Zones has classified Puerto Rico’s three facilities among the top 15 in the nation.
Puerto Rico’s 81 percent wireless penetration rate is low in contrast to other parts of the world where mobile phones outnumber people, leaving ample space for growth and further contributions by an industry that “could do more.” However, the impact of an industry is not always in the numbers, but in the quality of services it extends to a population.