Puerto Rico Telephone Company

Puerto Rico Telephone Company

Infobox Company
company_name = Puerto Rico Telephone Co. Inc.
company_
company_type = subsidiary of América Móvil (NYSE|AMX)
company_slogans = Todo Por Responderte.
foundation = 1858 [ [http://www.telefonicapr.com/es/sobreprt/quienessomos/misvisval.jsp PRT Puerto Rico Telephone, Sobre PRT > ¿Quienes Somos? ] ]
location = Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, USA
key_people = Cristina Lambert, President/CEO
industry = Telecommunications
products = Wireless, Telephone, Internet, Television
revenue = Investigating.
num_employees = 4,649| slogan = Todo Por Responderte.
homepage = [http://www.telefonicapr.com/ www.telefonicapr.com]

Puerto Rico Telephone (PRT), is the largest Puerto Rican telecommunications services company. It is headquartered in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and has operated for almost a century offering voice, data, long distance, broadband, directory publishing and wireless services for the island residents and businesses. It was a public corporation for many years until the majority stakes were acquiered by GTE in the mid-1990s. It was a subsidairy of Verizon Communications, due to GTE's involvement in the creation of new telecommunications giant Verizon.

On April 3, 2006 Verizon Communications announced it had agreed to sell its stakes in Puerto Rico Telephone and their sole ownership of the main Dominican telephone company Verizon Dominicana, now Claro-CODETEL, to América Móvil of Mexico." [http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2007/verizon-communications-2.html Verizon Communications Completes the Sale of Its Interest in Puerto Rico Telephone] ." Verizon International-Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.] " [http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2006/verizon-communications.html Verizon Communications Completes the Sale of Its Interest in Verizon Dominicana] ." Verizon International-Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.]

On December 31, 2006 Verizon and América Móvil completed Claro-CODETEL ownership transfer into Mexican hands. After another three months and various litigations upon the Federal Communications Commission, which had advise from the Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico, in March 30, 2007 Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico, Inc. (TELPRI) assets were completely acquired by América Móvil. The purchase was closed after an agreement to purchase from Popular, Inc., the government of Puerto Rico and the PRT employee stock ownership program, the remaining stocks of TELPRI at the same price as Verizon.

To present day, América Móvil is the 100% owner of the company" [http://www.cellular-news.com/story/22938.php América Móvil acquires PRT] ." Cellular-news.com April 2, 2007.] and has rebranded PRT's wireless arm -formerly Verizon Wireless- under their international Claro brand." [http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=17275&email=html| América Móvil completes takeover of PRT, rebrands mobile arm as Claro] ." Teleography's CommsUpdate April 2, 2007.] .

External links

* [http://www.telefonicapr.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.claropr.com/ Claro Puerto Rico | PRT's local and national wireless service]
* [http://www.dmaxpr.com/ DMAX | PRT's broadband Internet access service]
* [http://www.americamovil.com/ América Móvil Official Site]

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