Puerto Rico Supreme Court sitting on $500M decision for island telecom consumers
October 6, 2021
The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has in its hands the final decision on whether a 12-year-old case against Claro de Puerto Rico will be resolved in favor of consumers or be reverted to a lower court for a trial by jury. The class action lawsuit filed in February 2009 at the Bayamón Superior Court could […]
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P.R. Telephone Co., parent co. to pay $1.1M FCC fine
June 29, 2016
The Federal Communications Commission announced today that Puerto Rico Telephone Company and its parent company, América Móvil of Mexico, will pay $1.1 million to resolve an investigation by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau.
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Claro looking to pull plug on its PhoneMax VoiP service
February 20, 2014
Puerto Rico Telephone, which does business as Claro, is looking to pull the plug on its Voice over Internet Protocol-based PhoneMax service, some eight years after breaking ground with the next-generation tool.
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Puerto Rican Telephone workers affiliate with OPEIU
August 16, 2013
The Independent Telephone Workers Union, a 2,000 employee bargaining unit employed by Claro Puerto Rico known as the UIET, has voted to affiliate itself with the Office and Professional Employees International Union. The new group will be known as OPEIU Local Union 1971.
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FCC changes put $180M in telecom funding to P.R. at risk
May 23, 2012
Some $180 million that Puerto Rico receives in funding assigned annually through the Federal Communications Commission could be at risk due to the methodologies the agency is implementing to phase out the Universal Service Program and usher in its replacement, the Connect America Fund.
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FCC proposing slight drop to Universal Service Fund charge
March 29, 2012
As it does every quarter, the Federal Communications Commission is reviewing the rates that telephone companies must charge and pass off to consumers to cover the Universal Service Fund, which among other things, subsidizes services offered to low-income consumers as well as improvements to schools and libraries.
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Claro bids $11.2M to pick up additional wireless licenses
July 30, 2011
This week, Claro bid close to $11.2 million for six wireless licenses auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission, which it could use to improve or expand its mobile services, News is my Business learned Friday.
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Significant transactions that changed Puerto Rico’s wireless landscape in the last decade
March 21, 2011
October 2004 — The former Cingular Wireless, a joint venture of SBC Communications and BellSouth, completed a $41 billion merger with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., formerly part of AT&T Corp. But the changes did not stop there. In December 2006, Cingular became wholly owned by the new AT&T as a result of the latter’s acquisition […]
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