T-Mobile USA announced Tuesday there will be a second round of layoffs in coming weeks as it continues to restructure its operation, a decision that will have no impact on its Puerto Rico operations, local officials confirmed.
The Puerto Rico Broadband Task Force, a 12-member public-private coalition organized a year ago, is laying the foundation to more than double current broadband adoption levels across the island to at least 70 percent by 2015, up from the current 31 percent, and expedite a significant increase in download speeds within the next five to eight years.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit put an end earlier this month to a nearly five-year-old billing dispute between T-Mobile and Puerto Rico Telephone involving several million dollars in charges related to network interconnection and transport facilities.
Saying Open Mobile’s parent company, P.R. Wireless, has “less than adequate” liquidity, credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s revised its outlook on the wireless carrier to negative from stable and affirmed its ratings, including the 'B' corporate credit rating.
Critical Hub Networks announced Tuesday it has enabled next-generation IPv6 Internet services on its residential broadband network, becoming the first broadband provider in Puerto Rico to do so. The technology will benefit the company’s Caribe.Net customers.
Online cyber attacks skyrocketed by 81 percent in 2011 affecting organizations of all sizes and types worldwide, according to the 17th edition of Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, which also revealed that Puerto Rico ranked 10th among all territories in the Americas with the greatest volume of malicious activity.
During a recent call with investors, América Móvil CEO Daniel Hajj confirmed that the commercial launch of its 4G Long-Term Evolution platform in Puerto Rico will not take place until the third quarter of this year, following a limited roll-out of the next-generation technology late last year.
Telecommunications Regulatory Board President Sandra Torres said the agency will continue cracking down on copper theft, including going after those who have recently taken up the habit of stealing manhole covers belonging to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority.
The Puerto Rico Society of Certified Public Accountants presented Thursday a sweeping list of recommendations for the candidates running for governor in November, to solve problems in five specific areas: electricity costs; the ailing retirement system; the municipal tax system; economic development; and the health system.
Sprint's network conversion is finally underway, a move stateside industry sources said Monday could lead to an August deployment of the 4G next-generation technology.
Fueled by a recovering stateside economy and a string of renewable energy construction projects, Planning Board President Rubén Flores-Marzán said Thursday the island’s economy is improving at “a greater rate than expected,” projecting a 0.9 percent growth for Fiscal '12 that ends June 30.
T-Mobile Puerto Rico will be investing $35 million in a series of projects to strengthen its islandwide network, including expanding the capacity of its 4G HSPA+ network, upgrading cell sites and begin construction on its next-generation Long Term Evolution infrastructure, General Manager Jorge Martel said Thursday.
On Thursday, Open Mobile, the island’s only no-contract provider, announced it had flipped the switch on its LTE network, which is initially available in the San Juan metropolitan area.
Consumer rights advocate Gilberto Arvelo, popularly known as Dr. Shoper[sic], announced Tuesday the rebirth of his radio show that will air simultaneously on several stations to, in his words, fill an information gap that consumers have to be able to ride out the current economic conditions.
In the most recent Global Information Technology Report released Wednesday, Puerto Rico ranked second among the region’s most connected jurisdictions, behind only Barbados. However, the island ranks 36th in the world in terms of connectivity, which still denotes the persistence of a significant digital divide.
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