Puerto Rico Telephone Updates FCC on Network Restoration Work
The Puerto Rico Telephone Co. (PRTC) updated the FCC on its work restoring copper networks following Hurricanes Irma and Maria. “Fixed telecommunications services in the areas served in network node 95000IP06 have been restored,” bringing nodes restored to 1,201, said…
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a filing this week in docket 18-240. That includes 590 network nodes restored through deployment of fiber-to-the-home to replace copper loops, “which is more than four times the number of network nodes that PRTC originally had planned for restoration through FTTH.” PRTC noted that part of its restoration plan is to replace legacy connections with fixed broadband voice over LTE. “As PRTC has informed the Commission, the deployment of this fixed VoLTE-based solution was delayed significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent supply chain disruptions that affected the telecommunications industry.”