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.
A hearing slated to let the public and paid television industry players offer their opinions on whether Claro TV’s request for a cable television franchise is in the public interest may not take place Monday at the Telecommunications Regulatory Board if petitions the company filed to block it are granted.
Internet Service Provider Ayustar Corp. is facing a $25,000 fine from the Federal Communications Commission for allegedly operating a transmission system that is interfering with the Federal Aviation Administration’s Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, News is my Business learned.
AT&T dropped a bomb Friday on unlimited data plan smartphone customers who use their devices so much they fall into that top 5 percent that clogs up the network during any given billing cycle.
This week, Claro bid close to $11.2 million for six wireless licenses auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission, which it could use to improve or expand its mobile services, News is my Business learned Friday.
Document scanning, imaging and conversion company The DRS Group recently expanded its footprint into Puerto Rico, with the acquisition of Pro Image Corporation, for an undisclosed amount.
Twelve years after launching its on-demand video streaming service in the U.S. mainland and Canada, Netflix Inc. has finally included Puerto Rico in its footprint, opening the door for thousands of island residents wanting to subscribe to the service directly or via their video game devices.
Satellite television provider DirecTV is wrapping up its 12th year of operations on the island with a $13 million investment in new projects slated through the end of 2011.
Mexican telecom giant América Móvil, parent of local incumbent carrier Puerto Rico Telephone (which does business as Claro), is in hot water with the Federal Communications Commission for violating indirect foreign ownership rules after issuing stock that increased owner Carlos Slim and his family’s corporate stronghold.
Two local companies beat out about 3,000 competitors around the world to nab the distinction of being named Microsoft Partners of the Year, the software giant announced Wednesday.
OneLink Communications, the San Juan metropolitan area’s only cable television service provider, will be increasing its video service rate by $2.50 cents effective July 1, which for certain customers can represent a hike of close to 5 percent.
It’s no secret that most smartphones are robust in service, but often weak when it comes to enduring drops, water and on this tropical island, exposure to sand. To address all of those external challenges, Motorola and Claro teamed up to introduce to market the first mobile device capable of standing up to all them.
M. Scott Donahey, who for more than two decades has professionally mediated in Internet- and technology-related intellectual property disputes, will be on the island this week to offer a conference sponsored by the Internet Society of Puerto Rico.
Software giant Microsoft has reportedly been using three jurisdictions where it operates outside the United States — Puerto Rico, Ireland and Singapore — as tax shelters to reduce its federal tax bill, the Financial Times reported.
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