FCC levies $25K fine against Angulo-owned radio station
June 18, 2012
The Federal Communications Commission has issued a $25,000 fine against A Radio Company Inc., operator of the WEGA 1350 AM radio station, for failing to uphold an agreement entered into between the parties last year through which the Vega Baja operation agreed to pay $8,000 for violating agency rules.
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Wireless carriers ready to ride out ’12 hurricane season
June 11, 2012
Although this year’s hurricane season is just getting underway, several of the island's wireless carriers have disclosed their network preparedness and recovery plans, confirming their ability to be ride any storm that heads Puerto Rico’s way.
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Claro Puerto Rico joins global fight against AIDS
June 8, 2012
Claro Puerto Rico, a unit of América Móvil, announced Thursday the launch of its (Claro)RED initiative that coupled with the (RED) Rush to Zero campaign, seeks to eradicate the AIDS virus by 2015.
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Local delegation promotes P.R’s broadband needs in DC
June 6, 2012
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi told members of Congress Tuesday Puerto Rico needs to “have the correct policies in place, on both the federal and local level, to enable households and businesses … to access and adopt high-speed Internet and other modern telecommunications services at affordable rates.”
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Claro, Microsoft partner to deliver Office 365 to small, mid-sized businesses
May 31, 2012
Looking to provide easier and better accessibility to email, documents and applications anytime, anywhere Claro Puerto Rico and Microsoft Corp. have partnered to launch Office 365, a cloud-based suite of productivity tools designed for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Economist: 1st signs of ‘normalcy’ coming from unexpected places
May 31, 2012
One of the greatest challenges economists are having during this downturn is that it is not a “traditional boom-bust cycle,” economist Heidie Calero said in the May edition of the “Puerto Rico Economic Pulse” monthly bulletin published by her firm H. Calero Consulting.
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CTIA: Wireless products, services driving socioeconomic change
May 29, 2012
Wireless products and services are a powerful agent of social change that give billions of people around the world, including Puerto Rico, with anytime, anywhere access, according to a recent report by BSR and commissioned by CTIA-The Wireless Association.
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Wells Fargo analyst outlines P.R.’s ‘economic failure’
May 25, 2012
While saying Puerto Rico is not “America’s Greece,” a senior analyst with Wells Fargo Securities said the time has come for the island to implement drastic change or risk facing an even bigger economic collapse.
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FCC changes put $180M in telecom funding to P.R. at risk
May 23, 2012
Some $180 million that Puerto Rico receives in funding assigned annually through the Federal Communications Commission could be at risk due to the methodologies the agency is implementing to phase out the Universal Service Program and usher in its replacement, the Connect America Fund.
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Economist: Sustainability in public finances ‘critical’ to recovery
May 21, 2012
It is the general belief that it is bad for a government to have a deficit or be shoulder-deep in debt. However, while it is “perfectly legitimate” for public administrations to have shortfalls and finance them with debt, what is dangerous is when the practice leads to unsustainability.
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T-Mobile P.R. unscathed by 2nd wave of stateside layoffs, signs Culson for ad campaign
May 16, 2012
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.
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CIO lays out strategy to push island broadband adoption rate to 70% by ’15
May 15, 2012
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.
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T-Mobile scores victory in PRT billing dispute
May 9, 2012
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.
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Open Mobile ‘not worried’ about S&P’s credit outlook revision
May 9, 2012
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.
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Critical Hub Networks deploys IPv6 to Caribe.Net broadband users
May 9, 2012
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.
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