The Clarotv+ service has more than 200 channels and is available in plans with and without a contract.
Telecommunications company Claro announced the launch of TV Everywhere, for its Claro TV IPTV customers, through which they may access their programming by streaming the channels they are subscribed to via the carrier’s application. Customers may access content through their mobile phone, tablet or computer, wherever they are, 24 hours a day. “With Claro TV […]
Telecommunications provider Claro recently announced the addition of 22 new high-definition channels and services to its IPTV paid television platform, launched commercially earlier this year.
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 corporate union between the island’s leading cable operator OneLink Communications and the second largest, Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico, is expected to create a formidable competitor against satellite paid television providers and, in coming months, Claro de Puerto Rico.
The New Year may usher the start of Internet Protocol TV in Puerto Rico, if Claro succeeds in negotiating the cable television franchise agreement recently obtained from the Telecommunications Regulatory Board.
Telecommunications Regulatory Board Associate Member Nixyvette Santini filed a scorching dissenting opinion to the agency’s decision to grant Puerto Rico Telephone the cable franchise license it has been seeking since 2008, saying among other things that the order “is unfounded and lacks a responsible analysis that would look out for protecting the public interest and competitive environment.”
The rollercoaster ride that began three years ago when Puerto Rico Telephone requested an islandwide cable television license from the Telecommunications Regulatory Board has seemingly come to a stop, with a decision by the agency to grant the petition.
Nearly three years after requesting it, Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) has obtained its cable television franchise from the Telecommunications Regulatory Board, with which it will be able to launch Internet Protocol Television services islandwide.
Claro President Enrique Ortiz de Montellano publicly urged consumers Wednesday to continue exerting pressure on the Telecommunications Regulatory Board to issue the cable franchise license the company requested nearly three years ago to deploy its Internet Protocol TV service.
Onelink Communications, the San Juan metropolitan area’s main cable television provider, will be investing some $26 million in network upgrades in 2012, on top of the $184 million it has pumped into its network in the last six years, company officials said Tuesday.
The Puerto Rico Telecommunications Board have come to an agreement to grant the franchise license to Claro, putting an end to a three-year process that has kept the carrier from competing with the island’s cable companies.
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