Internet country code | .pr |
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Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
Total | 671,284 (2020 est.) |
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 24 (2020 est.) |
Internet users | |
Total | 2,564,100 (2021 est.) |
Percent of population | 77.7% (2021 est.) |
Telecommunication systems | |
General assessment | Puerto Rico has a small telecom market which in recent years has been deeply affected by a combination of economic mismanagement and natural disasters, including two hurricanes which landed in late 2017 and an earthquake which struck in January 2020; these disasters caused considerable destruction of telecom infrastructure, which in turn led to a marked decline in the number of subscribers for all services; compounding these difficulties have been a long-term economic downturn which encouraged many people not to resume telecom services after these were restored; after some delay, the FCC in late 2019 issued an order relating to the release of funds to help rebuild telecom infrastructure; although Puerto Rico is a US territory it lags well behind the mainland US states in terms of fixed-line and broadband services; this is partly due to high unemployment rates (and consequently low disposable income) and poor telecoms investment in a market; the mobile market has been impacted by several mergers and acquisitions over the last few years; the activities of large multinational telcos continue to impact the Puerto Rican market; operators have secured spectrum in the 600MHz and 3.5GHz bands, thus enabling them to expand the reach of LTE services and launch services based on 5G; the growing number of submarine cables landing in Puerto Rico is helping to drive down the cost of telecom services, creating a demand for streaming content from abroad; the uptake of cloud-based applications for both business and individuals is also creating a heightened demand for affordable services (2021) |
Domestic | Fixed-line is 22 per 100 and mobile-cellular is 112 per 100 persons (2021) |
International | Country code - 1-787, 939; landing points for the GTMO-PR, AMX-1, BRUSA, GCN, PCCS, SAm-1, Southern Caribbean Fiber, Americas-II, Antillas, ARCOS, SMPR-1, and Taino-Carib submarine cables providing connectivity to the mainland US, Caribbean, Central and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (2019) |
Telephones - fixed lines | |
Total subscriptions | 739,000 (2022 est.) |
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 23 (2022 est.) |
Telephones - mobile cellular | |
Total subscriptions | 3.896 million (2022 est.) |
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 120 (2022 est.) |
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