The Chamber of the Americas, a nonprofit organization based in Colorado, will be sponsoring a trade and development mission to the island next month, when it will offer a series of seminars on how to do business in Puerto Rico, the organization announced.
Gloria Escudero-Morales, sister of Port Authority Executive Director Alberto Escudero, has been named associate member of the Telecommunications Regulatory Board, succeeding outgoing member Vicente Aguirre-Iturino, News is my Business has learned.
It has been nearly a month since the Federal Communications Commission stopped the clock on its 180-day timeline to approve the proposed $39 billion AT&T acquisition of rival T-Mobile.
Are you one of those people who, when you get sick, cringe at the thought of spending an entire day going from specialist to specialist, hauling a pile of papers and X-rays documenting your medical history and test results, just to find out what your health issue may be?
The Northeastern Technological Initiative, known as INTENE, is looking to establish a marketing identity for the 10-town region it represents through the recent launch of the “Name the eastern tourism region” campaign. The effort is one component of a multi-pronged plan the nonprofit group has to boost economic activity along the island’s northeastern flanks.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority generated more than $434.6 million in revenue from island residential and commercial consumers, who burned through more than 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours of energy in June, the start of the sweltering summer season.
The Puerto Rico Planning Board approved an investment of more than $477.2 million in new development projects between April and June that aside from generating new construction, will also create 1,042 jobs, agency President Rubén Flores-Marzán said.
Following two tough days of public hearings on Claro’s petition for a cable operator franchise license to launch its paid television service via broadband, the Telecommunications Regulatory Board announced Tuesday it will issue its decision within the next two weeks, News is my Business learned.
The Public-Private Partnership Authority announced Tuesday it received requests for qualification bids from 12 global companies that are interested in managing the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in tandem with the government.
The government’s Chief Information Officer, Juan E. Rodríguez, urged the Telecommunications Regulatory Board Monday to give way to Puerto Rico Telephone’s petition for a cable television franchise license to launch islandwide IPTV service, as it would benefit consumers, competition and the economy.
Delayed by a “give-and-take” between Telecommunications Regulatory Board members and representatives from Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) and companies opposed to its application for a cable television franchise license, Monday’s hearing on IPTV got off to an unsurprisingly rocky start.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded the rating of more than $1 billion of the Puerto Rico Public Building Authority’s general obligation bonds to Baa1 from A3, providing a negative outlook for Series R and Series S. The bonds are expected to go to market Tuesday.
The United States’ 94-year excellent credit run ended Friday, when ratings agency Standard & Poor’s lowered the country’s AAA credit to AA+ for the first time, dissatisfied with the results of the spending cuts package agreement between Congress and the White House reached earlier in the week.
Claro has stepped up its efforts to obtain the franchise license it requested more than three years ago to break into the island’s paid television market by launching an online signature collection campaign Friday in support of its IPTV service.
Hundreds of channels, “a la carte”-like programming and cutting edge features based on a $60 million platform are some of the features that Claro TV is ready to offer island customers through the Internet-based cable television service it is proposing to launch.
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