FCC Announces All Of Puerto Rico To Have Access To High-Speed Broadband
Service As A Result Of Uniendo A Puerto Rico Fund
Nearly a Third of Locations Will Get Speeds of At Least 1 Gbps with All
Other Locations Getting Speeds of At Least 100 Mbps
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-usf-support-high-speed-broadband-puerto-rico
WASHINGTON, November 2, 2020—The Federal Communications Commission’s
Wireline Competition Bureau today announced that funding through Stage 2
of the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund will result in all locations in Puerto
Rico having access to fixed broadband service
with speeds of at least 100 Mbps. And nearly one-third of those locations
will have access to fixed broadband service with speeds of at least 1
Gbps.
Two winning applicants in the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Stage 2 Competitive
Process submitted bids for $127.1 million in funding over 10 years
covering more than 1.2 million locations through a competitive process
that awarded support for fixed voice and broadband services based on the
weighting of price and network performance, including speed, latency,
usage allowance, and resiliency. Liberty Communications has committed to
offering service to over 914,000 locations, and Puerto Rico Telephone
Company will offer service to over 308,000 locations.
