Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board President Sandra Torres on Wednesday blasted the Legislature for ransacking the agency’s finances earlier this year, when it withdrew $10 million from a self-generated fund to balance the budget. The decision, she said, left the agency’s finances in a “precarious state.”
Two years after scrubbing out about 166,000 Puerto Rico residents who were misusing phone subsidy benefits through the “Lifeline” program, the Telecommunications Regulatory Board has asked the Federal Communications Commission to allow it to opt-out of the stateside database to continue doing the job on its own.
More than 18 months after getting the legal go-ahead to include satellite television companies within its jurisdiction, the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board is moving closer to implementing the regulations that companies will be required to follow.
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