Less than a year after unveiling the island’s first network capable of offering 4G speeds, T-Mobile announced Wednesday plans to expand the high-speed service in more than 40 municipalities that include the areas of Naranjito, Juana Díaz, Luquillo, Las Marías, Toa Alta, Florida, Lares, and Canóvanas.
Upon learning earlier this week that more than 200,000 local consumers are allegedly committing fraud with subsidies offered on residential and wireless telephone services, Sen. Lornna Soto will visit the Telecommunications Regulatory Board today to collect documents and other information that may be referred to local and federal law enforcement authorities.
Open Mobile, the island’s only pay-for-play wireless service provider, is on the final stages of completing its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, which should be up and running before the end of this year, News is my Business learned Wednesday.
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.
The areas of health care, education, and public safety in eight central and eastern Puerto Rico towns will have access to faster and more affordable broadband services in coming months through the network interconnection agreement reached between Critical Hub Networks’ Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative project and the Central Eastern Technological Initiative, or Inteco.
Puerto Rican NBA players José Juan Barea and Carlos Arroyo are once again taking center court in T-Mobile’s latest advertising campaign launched Wednesday along with the arrival of the carrier’s two newest 4G-enabled smartphones, the HTC Amaze 4G and the Samsung Galaxy S II.
While it may seem as though everyone on this island has one, or maybe several, wireless phones, the more than 3 million active devices still do not outnumber Puerto Rico’s residents. But the story is quite different when it comes to the U.S. as a nation, where wireless connections have exceeded its population for the first time.
AT&T Puerto Rico will be receiving the first shipment of iPhone 4S devices, in black and white casings, this Friday, when stores will open at 8 a.m. for customers who did not pre-order Apple’s latest smartphone, company officials announced Tuesday.
The Private Sector Coalition and representatives of 17 labor unions signed a “historic” Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate with and support federal initiatives that spur socioeconomic development in Puerto Rico.
Consumers who lack programming skills but want to design an application now have an easy, portable and affordable way to do it through the solutions provided by Puerto Rico developer XPOUS, creator of iGenApps.
Basing the future of Puerto Rico’s economy on an uncontrollable factor, such as an amendment of the U.S. tax code, is not the safest route to take to achieve growth and is not the “silver bullet” the island needs to secure long-term stability, Sergio Marxuach, public policy director of the Center for the New Economy, said Thursday.
Affiliated Computer Services is investing $2.3 million to establish a call processing center in Guaynabo, that will create more than 500 new jobs, including 80 that have been filled so far, company officials said Tuesday.
It seems as though everybody is looking for ways to drive down Puerto Rico’s mounting energy costs, which are strangling residential and commercial customers alike every month. On Monday, a large group of private sector representative came together to propose to the governor the creation of an independent body to find solutions in the short, medium and long term to deal with the problem.
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