Almost a year to the date after acquiring OneLink Communications, Liberty Cablevision announced that effective today, it will eliminate the San Juan cable system's brand and replace it with its own.
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.
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.
Five years after announcing its intention to launch Internet Protocol-based, paid-television services, Claro de Puerto Rico officially announced Wednesday the availability of its IPTV offer in 37 towns.
Several weeks after concluding a “friends and family” trial period of its television-via-broadband technology, Claro de Puerto Rico is ready for a full launch of the highly-anticipated ClaroTV service across the San Juan metropolitan area and several major towns before month’s end, company President Enrique Ortiz de Montellano confirmed Thursday.
The next couple of weeks will be decisive ones for Liberty Puerto Rico, as it sets off a number of strategies it has laid down to improve services and pricing offers to its recently acquired OneLink Communications customer portfolio.
America-CV Station Group Inc. recently chalked up a legal victory for itself in a squabble against Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico — which it took up with the Federal Communications Commission — over the airing of the MundoFox Network.
OneLink Communications will have a new owner before the end of November, when Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico expects to close its $585 million acquisition of the San Juan cable carrier and take over its operation, Naji Khoury, managing director of the buying company, said Thursday.
The Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board has yet to receive Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico’s application asking for approval of its proposed acquisition of OneLink Communications, but it has already opened a 30-day public comment window to allow consumers and competitors to weigh in on the proposed transaction.
As of Friday morning, some 20,000 OneLink Communications customers still had no service in the wake of storm Irene, company officials said.
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.
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