The telecommunications industry is marking the 20th anniversary of the Telecom Reform Act of 1996, which in Puerto Rico sparked unprecedented levels of competition in a sector formerly dominated by a single carrier and astronomical calling rates.
The Latin American Forum of Telecommunications Regulators (known as REGULATEL for its initials in Spanish) confirmed unopposed a pair of agreements of understanding reached with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the Federal Communications Commission under the tenure of its chairman, Javier Rúa-Jovet.
Telecommunications service provider Claro announced Thursday it will freeze all of its mass market rates for wireless and fixed telephony, Internet and television services “in solidarity with the consumer’s economic situation.”
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