P.R. Conference: Brainstorming to jumpstart economy
March 20, 2012
The need to build on skills as a way to bring Puerto Rico’s economy back into positive ground will be the focus of at least one of the keynote addresses on the Puerto Rico Conference 2012 agenda slated to take place Mar. 28 at the Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza.
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Telecom industry exec: ‘Problems at TRB were foreseeable’
March 16, 2012
While members of the Telecommunications Regulatory Board remained mum on the two-against-one internal battle going on at the agency that lead to a lawsuit at San Juan Superior Court last week, an industry executive spoke out Thursday, saying among other things, the problems were foreseeable.
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Polytechnic Univ. to host 7th edition of ‘InfoSecurity San Juan’ event
March 16, 2012
The seventh annual edition of one of the most notable online security events, InfoSecurity San Juan 2012, is slated to take place Mar. 20, when issues related to cloud and mobile security will be the central topics of discussion.
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Telecom Board infighting unleashes unprecedented lawsuit linked to IPTV dispute
March 14, 2012
The tension that has been brewing in recent months among the Telecommunications Regulatory Board members over Puerto Rico Telephone/Claro’s cable franchise license petition escalated another notch late last week, when the agency sued Associate Member Nixyvette Santini in San Juan Superior Court.
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PRIDCO assigns $1.6M to Inteco’s broadband development project
March 12, 2012
The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company’s board approved a $1.6 million assignment to the Central Eastern Technological Initiative, to match federal funding granted by the U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration to expand broadband access to economically disadvantage communities in the region, Economic Development and Commerce José Pérez-Riera, who also heads Pridco, said Monday.
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OneLink gets FCC OK to access broader set-top box market, clients could see savings
March 5, 2012
The Federal Communications Commission has granted a petition submitted by OneLink Communications late last year that could potentially represent savings for clients who pay monthly rental fees for their high-definition or DVR set-top boxes.
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Juana Díaz opens public Internet center
March 2, 2012
Following the government’s promise to establish a free internet center in each municipality, Telecommunications Regulatory Board President Sandra Torres inaugurated Thursday new facilities that will offer free Internet access to more than 2,200 Juana Díaz residents.
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February bankruptcy filings down 11%
March 2, 2012
The island's bankruptcy filings continued to drop in February, when 11 percent fewer cases were submitted to the court, versus the same month in 2011, according to preliminary numbers released Thursday by research company Boletín de Puerto Rico.
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PRMA, trade groups to pick up Section 933A lobbying efforts
February 27, 2012
A delegation composed by members of the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association and other trade groups belonging to the Private Sector Coalition is heading to Washington, D.C. this week to meet with 18 Congressional leaders to continue lobbying for the adoption of Section 933A of the Internal Revenue Code.
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T-Mobile USA investing $4B to deploy 4G LTE in U.S., P.R.
February 24, 2012
T-Mobile USA unveiled plans Thursday to spend $4 billion — the same amount it collected from the failed merger with AT&T last year — to modernize its network through the deployment of 4G Long-Term Evolution technology nationwide and in Puerto Rico in 2013.
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Somoza joins attorney generals from 35 states blasting new Google policy
February 22, 2012
Puerto Rico Justice Secretary Guillermo Somoza-Colombani is one of 36 state representatives who signed a five-page letter to Google Inc. President Larry Page voicing “strong concerns” with the new privacy policy the online giant announced will go into effect March 1 for all of its consumer products.
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Tech company LGS Global establishes training academy
February 22, 2012
Indian information technology development and consulting firm LGS Global formally announced Tuesday the establishment of the LGS Solutions Academy in Puerto Rico to train and certify 100 local public and private sector professionals on the key Oracle and SAP software, who upon graduating may be recruited by the multinational firm.
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Social imbalance stumping P.R.’s growth, future
February 20, 2012
A society that allocates more resources to the upper echelons at the expense of a middle class perpetuates a centuries-old problem that only leads to a reduction in the demand for goods and services, resulting in a crippled economy.
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TRB still working on prepaid phone registry, calls CTIA lawsuit ‘premature’
February 17, 2012
The Telecommunications Regulatory Board is still in the early stages of developing the regulations necessary to enforce Law 280 that mandates creating a mechanism to register and track customers buying prepaid handsets in Puerto Rico, agency President Sandra Torres said Thursday.
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AT&T’s speed throttling unleashes calls to TRB, Facebook group
February 17, 2012
The apparent customer discontent related to AT&T’s decision to throttle speeds for heavy data users signed up to unlimited plan unleashed a stream of phone calls and emails to the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board, which fielded about 120 of them between Wednesday and Thursday, News is my Business learned.
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