Claro Puerto Rico

Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico
Company typeSubsidiary
Claro Puerto Rico
PredecessorPuerto Rico Telephone Company (Telefónica de Puerto Rico),
Puerto Rico Communications Corporation (Autoridad de Comunicaciones)
Founded1914; 110 years ago (1914)
HeadquartersGuaynabo, Puerto Rico
Revenue$1.2 billion USD
Number of employees
4,649
ParentITT Corporation 1920–1974
Government-owned corporations of Puerto Rico 1974–1998
GTE 1998–2000
Verizon Wireless 2000–2007
América Móvil 2007–present
SubsidiariesCoquiNet Corporation, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Inc.
Websiteclaropr.com

Claro Puerto Rico is the largest telecommunications service provider in Puerto Rico. 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 founded by the Behn brothers, Sosthenes and Hernan in 1914.[1] Originally, Puerto Rico Telephone Company eventually spawned ITT Corporation, which was founded by Sosthenes Behn. The company was a public corporation of the government of Puerto Rico for many years until the majority stakes were acquired by GTE in the mid-1990s. It was a subsidiary of Verizon Communications until it was fully acquired by América Móvil in 2007.

  1. ^ "PRT | DMAX | CLARO | Historia". 2010-09-19. Archived from the original on 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2023-05-20.