Puerto Rico sees slight drop in mobile lines

Puerto Rico experienced a slight drop in mobile telephone lines in January, according to data published by the country's telecommunications regulatory board.

The data shows that mobile lines dropped to 3.16mn from 3.20mn in December, while fixed lines, the total of which has included voice over IP since December 2014, remained stable at the 813,000 mark.

There was also a national reduction of 34,000 mobile pre-paid subscribers and 5,000 post-paid between December and January.

Even so, total wired and wireless lines per 100 inhabitants remained virtually the same, at 23.6 and 91.9 respectively.