Four years after taking over the reins of Puerto Rico Telephone, the island’s largest telecommunications provider, company President Enrique Ortiz de Montellano believes there’s still a lot of work ahead to spur the growth of landline, wireless and paid television markets.
The merger between Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA’s parent, and MetroPCS Communications Inc. may prove good for Puerto Rico consumers.
Wireless carrier Open Mobile officially announced the birth of a new business model with which it will break away from the strictly prepaid, no-contract structure it has offered since entering the market more than a decade ago.
Wireless carrier Sprint announced Monday that the 4G LTE network build is under way in more than 100 additional cities within its existing nationwide 3G footprint. The list includes nearly a dozen Puerto Rico municipalities.
Competition between Puerto Rico’s two largest wireless carriers, Claro and AT&T, over the mobile residential phone market is heating up, with the latter company’s introduction of its “Claro Hogar” service.
Wireless carrier Open Mobile has hired a new chief executive officer, Juan Saca, to lead its Puerto Rico operations. Saca, a seasoned telecommunications industry executive, has been quietly at the helm of the pre-paid carrier since June, News is my Business learned.
Although this year’s hurricane season is just getting underway, several of the island's wireless carriers have disclosed their network preparedness and recovery plans, confirming their ability to be ride any storm that heads Puerto Rico’s way.
Prepaid wireless carrier Open Mobile recently struck a data roaming agreement with Verizon Wireless that will allows customers traveling stateside to avoid overage charges for using another network.
Wireless products and services are a powerful agent of social change that give billions of people around the world, including Puerto Rico, with anytime, anywhere access, according to a recent report by BSR and commissioned by CTIA-The Wireless Association.
Some 500 T-Mobile employees and an additional 800 companions visited Puerto Rico recently as part of the sales and service incentive trip the wireless carrier offers its nationwide staff.
Telecommunications and technology provider Claro Puerto Rico recently struck an agreement with retailer JCPenney to open point-of-sale kiosks at the Plaza las Américas and Carolina stores.
Wireless carrier Open Mobile announced Monday the appointment of Federico Grosso as chief operating officer of the company as it embarks on adopting and deploying its next-generation 4G LTE network.
Data-hungry AT&T customers — smartphone and tablet users — will begin paying more for their allotted monthly amount starting Sunday, when the carrier will begin charging an additional $5 per plan. However, the hike will also come with an increase in the amount of data assigned to each plan, the carrier said.
Puerto Rico’s wireless market is gearing up for another year of growth, fueled by the explosion of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) digital technology that promises faster and better services. The demand that should be associated with LTE will drive companies to do everything they can to expand the technology’s reach, industry executives told News is my Business.
Non-computer devices — including mobile phones, tablets, and other connected gadgets — accounted for 5.9 percent of all web browsing activity traffic generated in Puerto Rico in October 2011, according to the latest report released Thursday by reputable digital world analyst firm comScore.
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