Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico LLC announced Wednesday that affiliates of its indirect majority shareholder, Liberty Global and its indirect minority shareholder, Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P., have entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the parent of Puerto Rico Cable Acquisition Company Inc., which does business as Choice Cable TV.
OneLink Communications and Choice Cable TV will face off against the Telecommunications Regulatory Board in federal court this week over the agency’s decision to grant Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) a cable television franchise license to offer Internet Protocol television services, which the cable providers claim is illegal.
San Juan metropolitan area cable provider OneLink Communications stepped up Wednesday in support of Choice Cable’s decision to file a complaint against Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) for what it claims to be an illegal build-out of its Internet Protocol Television network.
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