TRB President Sandra Torres, flanked by lawmakers Paula Rodríguez Homs, Lornna Soto and José Chico during a Thursday news conference. Almost 15 years after the Telecommunications Regulatory Board began regulating the local market, it has gotten the legal go-ahead to include direct broadcast service providers, or satellite television companies, within its jurisdiction. Through the approval […]

Alvaro Celis, general director for Microsoft’s multi-country Americas division and Cleber Voelzke, general manager of the Puerto Rico operation. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual) Microsoft Puerto Rico is looking to change the way people work in Puerto Rico by practicing what it preaches. On Wednesday, the company inaugurated its new $2.5 million, 13,000 square-foot headquarters at […]

Jorge Martel As Puerto Rico’s dynamic wireless mobile market continues to evolve, so do customer trends and needs. For T-Mobile, notable tendencies that have emerged in recent months are a growth of the so-called “affordable smartphone” customer segment and a demand for more and better mobile content. During his first meeting with members of the […]

Carlo Marazzi Promising to offer affordable high-speed Internet to all of Puerto Rico, the $32.5 million Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative was officially inaugurated Tuesday, with the goal of eventually expanding a broadband footprint to the entire island. The inauguration of the first phase of the network comes nearly a year after PRBI project manager Critical […]

Enrique Ortiz de Montellano For the second time in as many days a local wireless provider has jumped into the 4G arena. On Wednesday Claro de Puerto Rico announced the start of its next-generation wireless service, with an investment of $240 million. The HSPA+ network covers 80 percent of Claro’s footprint, including Vieques, said Claro […]

(Photo Credit: Carlos Anguita) AT&T de Puerto Rico on Tuesday announced plans to beef up its local wireless network, adding cell sites and technology to enable fourth-generation transmission speeds. However, in an unusual twist to its announcement, the company withheld associated investment figures. Nevertheless, the island’s largest wireless carrier said its plans call for installing […]

California-based computer memory manufacturer Smart Modular Technologies announced Thursday it will be closing its Aguada plant due to a long-term production decline.  The closing, which will leave 104 people jobless, will be finalized April 13, company spokeswoman Suzanne Craig confirmed.  The company informed employees of the decision on Monday.  As a result of the closing, […]

Open Mobile, one of the five wireless carriers serving the Puerto Rico market, has been spared from paying a $20,000 fine to the Federal Communications Commission for faltering to adequately report how it goes about protecting subscribers’ private information. The federal watchdog waived the fine late last week, after Open Mobile submitted a certification stating […]

The familiar Puerto Rico Telephone and DMAX brands — through which PRT offered its telephone and Internet services, respectively — are being phased out on the consumer level, to be unified under the the ‘Claro’ name, the carrier announced Monday. The move comes four years after Mexican telecommunications giant América Móvil, whose flagship brand throughout […]

The Federal Communications Commission has given cable television provider OneLink Communcations the go-ahead to begin scrambling the signal of its basic-service tier, paving the way for the company to overhaul its San Juan metropolitan area system. As News is my Business reported exclusively in November, Onelink submitted a petition to the FCC, asking for a […]

HTC Inspire 4G Using the Consumer Electronics Show as its backdrop, AT&T announced the deployment of 4G speeds using both HSPA+ and LTE technologies to deliver faster services. Company officials announced plans Wednesday to accelerate its LTE network build, to be largely complete by late 2013. The carrier also plans to begin its launch of […]

Puerto Rico Telephone recently scored a regulatory victory that will produce millions in operational savings, as a result of a Federal Communications Commission decision regarding the way the carrier offers long distance services. In an extensive decision released about a week ago, the FCC granted PRT’s request to allow it to provide long distance services […]