Puerto Rico Telephone, which does business as Claro, has been required by the Federal Communications Commission to step up how it provides services to hearing-impaired customers on the island.
Puerto Rico Telephone has asked a federal judge to impose a penalty against OneLink Communications in the latest chapter of a legal battle unleashed about two years ago when the San Juan operator tried to block the telephone carrier from breaking into the island’s cable market.
During the first half of 2013, AT&T has invested more than $40 million in its wireless and wired networks in Puerto Rico, to complete the deployment of new macro cell sites and capacity enhancements across the island as part of its Project Velocity IP initiative — a three-year investment plan announced last fall to expand and enhance its IP broadband networks.