The Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board has opened for public comment the petition submitted by Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico to buy Choice Cable TV, and fold the latter’s franchise license into its local operation, this media outlet confirmed.
Puerto Rico’s Chief Information Officer, Giancarlo González, was included in this year’s “State of the CIO” survey, which lists the top 100 information technology executives in the nation based on their presence on Twitter.
Puerto Rico’s thriving and diverse mobile device user base and presence of international wireless carriers appears to have been the key factors to convincing one of the world’s largest technology developers, Google Inc., to launch a smartphone pilot program that could thrust the island into the international spotlight.