Report from the Field: A Broadband Bridge to Puerto Rico

Anna M. Gomez, the deputy assistant secretary for communications and information for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), recently joined Critical Hub Networks staff and Puerto Rico Chief Information Officer Juan Eugenio Rodriquez on a tour of Critical Hub’s data center facilities in San Juan. The facilities are part of Critical Hub Networks’ Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative BTOP project.

Connect Puerto Rico recently released data that indicates that 14 percent of Puerto Rico households are unserved by a fixed broadband provider. This represents approximately 76,682 unserved households that do not have access to a fixed wireless or wired broadband service offering (excluding mobile and satellite service).

To help fill this gap, NTIA awarded Puerto Rico two Recovery Act grants to expand and enhance broadband infrastructure.

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