Puerto Rico gets $1.4M for safety broadband network
September 12, 2013
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration this week awarded a $1.4 million grant to Puerto Rico under the State and Local Implementation Grant Program to help in planning for the island’s First Responder Network Authority, known as FirstNet.
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Delta to host BloggerCon, international tourism panel
September 5, 2013
Delta Air Lines, this year’s lead sponsor of Puerto Rico BloggerCon 2013, will host a panel of renowned bloggers from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Spain to address the impact of social media on the travel and tourism industry.
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Google exec: Connected consumers expect relevant ads
September 3, 2013
Today’s generation lives in a multiscreen world, where people are connected all day, to the point that they are called “Generation-C,” due to their digital and participatory nature, their link to mobile devices and the type of relationships they develop through the Internet.
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Puerto Rico seeking $31.5M in FCC broadband funding
August 26, 2013
The Federal Communications Commission announced last week it has received requests from telecommunications providers in 44 states and Puerto Rico for more than $385 million in money from the Connect America Fund to benefit as many as 600,000 rural homes and small businesses that lack broadband.
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Senate bill goes after illicit paid TV decoder suppliers
August 26, 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing this week to analyze Bill 410, which proposes to ban the sale, installation, tampering, and alteration of equipment for satellite, cable television, and similar paid television services, punishing such activities with a fine, jail time or both.
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Lexmark shifts focus from printers to business solutions
August 23, 2013
After more than a year of quietly reshuffling its Puerto Rico operation, Lexmark executives met with members of the media Thursday to outline future plans that call for a marked shift from being strictly known as a consumer-oriented, multi-functional printer maker to a solutions provider catering to a corporate market they say is leaning more toward adopting digital technologies.
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DISH looking to grab 50% of Puerto Rico paid TV market
August 21, 2013
When DISH Network Corp. CEO Joseph P. Clayton came to Puerto Rico several months ago to assess his company’s local performance, he didn’t like what he saw.
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DISH-Claro bundle now available in Puerto Rico
August 20, 2013
DISH Puerto Rico and Claro today introduced a bundled offer to island consumers that includes pay-TV, broadband and voice services, in a bid to continue expanding their local footprints.
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FCC orders Claro to ramp up service to hearing-impaired
August 19, 2013
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.
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Puerto Rico Telephone seeking sanctions against OneLink
August 15, 2013
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.
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AT&T invests $40M in Puerto Rico in 1st half of ’13
August 9, 2013
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.
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Fortuño named to Media Group of America board
August 6, 2013
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño has been named to Media Group of America, LLC’s board of directors, for a two-year term, the company announced Tuesday.
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OneLink to present sweeping service, lineup changes
July 29, 2013
OneLink Communications is about three weeks away from introducing a significantly different television lineup, faster Internet speeds, and adjusted rates for its services offered in the San Juan metropolitan area, as outlined in an extensive notice mailed to its customer over the past few days.
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78% of world leaders have Twitter account, study shows
July 26, 2013
Global public relations and communications firm Burson-Marsteller recently released “Twiplomacy,” an annual global study of world leaders on Twitter, which showed that more than three-quarters (77.7 percent) of world leaders have an account on that social media platform and two-thirds (68 percent) have made mutual connections with their peers.
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Claro, DISH join to offer bundled services in Puerto Rico
July 24, 2013
Claro and DISH Puerto Rico, the island’s largest telecommunications and pay-TV providers respectively, announced Tuesday that they have entered into a partnership to offer customers bundled services including DISH’s pay-TV and Claro’s Internet, wireless and telephone services, on a single bill.
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