FCC’s Pai wants $954 million for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands recovery

Most of the funds will go towards one of Pai's larger priorities: lighting up grids in rural or low-connectivity areas. Those happen to occur heavily in storm-affected regions.

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After the hurricanes, T-Mobile wants to saturate Puerto Rico with 600MHz

New network spectrum and a big canvas to brush it on. For a time, there was a debate about how to reboot Puerto Rico's power grid. This is different.

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Project Loon flies over Puerto Rico, iPhones to take special advantage of Band 8 LTE

Alphabet is providing the "towers," AT&T is providing the service and Apple is providing the capable for iPhones to connect better on the storm-torn island.

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After Puerto Rico hurricanes, AT&T and T-Mobile provide SMS queue services

Customers wishing to contact unreachable loved ones on Puerto Rico can use these services to at least line a text up to send once service is restored.

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Samsung to help upgrade América Móvil network to 4.5G standards

Upgraded MIMO technology, signal amplification and calls over LTE and Wi-Fi are on their way to Latin America with the help of Samsung.

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Puerto Rico has Samsung Pay, though only at Banco Popular

The United States’ largest territory officially now can make mobile payments through Samsung Pay.Puerto Ricans with cards from Banco Popular will be able to use their Galaxy S6 or newer device to tap, pay and go, so long as the phone’s from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint or Claro. Odd that Samsung Pay still hasn’t been able to bargain out a deal with Santander or Scotiabank.Samsung Pay has lit up service in

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