Telecommuncations company Claro Puerto Rico and the St. Regis Bahía Beach Resort and Golf Club announced an agreement by which the former will provide the residents of Bahía Beach its television and fiber optic broadband services with speeds of up to 150 Megas for Internet service.
Wireless provider Claro announced this week its new lineup of calling plans featuring unlimited, no-contract offers for families looking to share services.
Telecom provider Claro announced Monday the availability of its “4-Play” bundle of services that combine broadband, television and unlimited fixed telephone services, as well as a free Android tablet for on-the-go connections.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While members of the Telecommunications Regulatory Board remained mum on the two-against-one internal battle going on at the agency that lead to a lawsuit at San Juan Superior Court last week, an industry executive spoke out Thursday, saying among other things, the problems were foreseeable.
The tension that has been brewing in recent months among the Telecommunications Regulatory Board members over Puerto Rico Telephone/Claro’s cable franchise license petition escalated another notch late last week, when the agency sued Associate Member Nixyvette Santini in San Juan Superior Court.
The arrival of television-via-broadband could happen this quarter, as Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) had mapped out, after the U.S. District Court dismissed complaint filed by OneLink Communications opposing the manner in which the license to launch the service was granted.
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.
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.
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