Puerto Rico Telephone has asked a federal judge to impose a penalty against OneLink Communications in the latest chapter of a legal battle unleashed about two years ago when the San Juan operator tried to block the telephone carrier from breaking into the island’s cable market.
Wireless carrier Claro Puerto Rico announced Tuesday the start of its (Claro)RED 2013 with the objective of further promoting the fight against AIDS and to achieve that by 2015, there are no children born with HIV.
Claro and DISH Puerto Rico, the island’s largest telecommunications and pay-TV providers respectively, announced Tuesday that they have entered into a partnership to offer customers bundled services including DISH’s pay-TV and Claro’s Internet, wireless and telephone services, on a single bill.
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.
Wireless carrier T-Mobile, one of three local companies chosen by the Federal Communications Commission to increase broadband adoption and retention among low-income consumers, has announced the start of its subsidized mobile Internet access pilot program, through which it expects to benefit some 3,000 Puerto Rico residents.
Claro de Puerto Rico announced Tuesday it has begun testing the benefits of using solar technology at its cellular towers, with the installation of the first such equipment at its cell site in Vieques. If successful, the pilot program could be expanded to the main island, company officials confirmed.
Telecommunications carrier Claro de Puerto Rico has reported 280 incidents of copper theft at its facilities this year — mostly along the island’s southwestern region — that not only cause service interruptions, but represent a safety risk as well. Last year, the company saw $4 million in losses related to the proliferation of the problem, company executives said.
Claro Puerto Rico on Wednesday became the first carrier on the island to launch subsidized broadband Internet services for low-income customers, in line with a pilot program the Federal Communications Commission announced late last year.
Telecom carrier Claro officially cut the ribbon on its newest customer service center in Guayama, to provide attention to customers in Puerto Rico’s central and southern regions.
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 Federal Communications Commission has included three Puerto Rico telecommunications service providers in a nationwide pilot program that seeks to increase broadband adoption and retention among low-income consumers.
The backlash generated in response to recent comments made by puppeteer Antulio “Kobo” Santarrosa through his television show “SuperXclusivo” and female alter-ego “La Comay” about a gruesome murder that took place over the weekend could take a significant bite out of WAPA TV’s (Ch. 4) advertising revenue, as a handful of its major corporate sponsors pulled their ads from the prime-time slot Wednesday.
Telecommunications provider Claro Puerto Rico announced Wednesday it has officially switched on its next-generation 4G Long-Term Evolution digital platform in San Juan, Ponce and Mayagüez, as this media outlet first reported last month.
Four years after taking over the reins of Puerto Rico Telephone, the island’s largest telecommunications provider, company President Enrique Ortiz de Montellano believes there’s still a lot of work ahead to spur the growth of landline, wireless and paid television markets.
Claro de Puerto Rico announced Thursday the deployment of fiber optic infrastructure that will enable it to offer consumers broadband Internet in speeds of up to 50 megabits per second.
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