MAP > Internet Providers in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico’s telecom market has experienced combination of the economic mismanagement as well as the devastation in the recent years that has been caused by the hurricanes that have hit territory in late 2017. General destruction that followed hurricanes that lead to the marked decline in terms of the number of the subscribers for all the services while the straitened economic circumstances that went on and forced very many people not to resume the telecom services after they got to be restored. Despite Puerto Rico being the United States Territory, well it lags behind mainland United States in terms of the fixed line as well as the broadband penetration.

This has been partly due to the high rate of unemployment and the poor telecoms investment in the market has been largely ruled by the incumbent, the Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Activities of United States based telco’s that includes the T-mobile U, AT&T, and the Sprint has continued to impact on Puerto Rican market. This is what has been observed in these operators being able to secure the spectrum in 600 MHz and also expanding the reach of the LTE services.

Puerto Rico Telephone Company dominance in the fixed-line market dominance had been augmented, and this is following the acquisition by the largest wireless company in Latin America and the America Movil. Well, in contrast with the six network operators, the mobile market has experienced some robust competition as well as growth.

Despite America Movil’s Claro briefly taking the lead from the AT&T mobility in terms of the subscriber numbers, AT&T has regained top position, and this is following the acquisition of the Centennial Communications. In early 2017, the Sprint and the open wireless have agreed to go on and merge the networks in the bid to be able to offer the better market competition by being able to increase the scale as well as the spectrum holdings. Acquisition by the Liberty Global of remaining cable Television operator Choice cable, finished in the mid-2015, therefore creating the monopoly player in the sector.

The Liberty Cablevision, which is now fully owned by the liberty Global’s LLA division, in a very strong position to capitalize on the scale and also to offer improved services based on the greater investment in the technologies, and this includes anticipated DOCSIS3.1 standard.