Following the acquisition, Liberty Latin America owns 100 percent of Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico.
The first phase of the project will entail an investment of $30 million to build.
Liberty Puerto Rico is making progress in its infrastructure restoration work, completing repairs to its fiber line from San Juan to Luquillo and lines extending to Caguas and Levittown, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Nine months after Liberty Puerto Rico picked up the assets of Choice Cable TV, the telecommunications company announced that effective today, both companies will operate as Liberty islandwide.
Liberty Puerto Rico officially inaugurated last week its new 3,500 square-foot customer service center in Hato Rey, on the corner of Ponce de León and Roosevelt Avenues.
Just shy of six months after announcing its intentions, Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico LLC confirmed Wednesday the closing of the acquisition of Puerto Rico Cable Acquisition Company Inc., which does business on the island as Choice Cable TV.
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.
Liberty Puerto Rico recently launched its newest product, “Liberty Everywhere,” through which it vows to “transform the ways in which its customers access and use video content.”
In an effort to provide new and higher Internet speeds for a better value, Liberty Puerto Rico announced Wednesday the availability of high-speed broadband of 100Mbps download with 4Mbps for upload.
One month after Liberty Puerto Rico announced its decision to pull the plug on Viacom-owned programming, the American Cable Association sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission slamming the content provider’s decision to also block access to its websites by broadband Internet subscribers, including those served by the carrier.
Puerto Rico on Thursday became the final connecting point of a $1.1 billion high-speed submarine cable system deployed by telecommunications provider América Móvil that is capable of offering broadband transmission speeds of up to 100 Gigabits per second.
Liberty Puerto Rico is partnering with technology provider ActiveVideo to launch of a cloud-based personalized user interface that uses real-time viewing metrics to display program popularity and offers insight into how viewers find television content in a social context.
Effective tomorrow, Liberty Puerto Rico will eliminate all of the Viacom channels in the Ultimate and Ultimate Plus video tiers after unfruitful negotiations with the provider, the local cable carrier said.
Liberty Global, Liberty Puerto Rico’s parent company, announced on Jan. 13 in its SEC filing that it is looking into a potential spinoff to shareholders of its Latin American units, which includes Liberty Puerto Rico and VTR in Chile.
After a challenging year when Puerto Rico’s economy remained in contraction, members of the different key industries, trade associations and economists weigh in on what 2014 will bring to the island.
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