SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - May 25, 2018 - Liberty Puerto Rico received the 2017 Speedtest Award as the fastest Internet network in Puerto Rico. Liberty won the title with a Speed Score of 29.98, well above other Internet service providers on the Island. Liberty also achieved maximum speeds to download and upload data of 62.80 Mbps and 9.31 Mbps respectively. The award is based on an Ookla® analysis of 1,343,980 speed tests that consumers did during the last six months of 2017.
"Even with the challenges we face from hurricanes Irma and Maria, our company has always been at the forefront in terms of speed and stability of the Internet," said Naji Khoury, president and chief executive officer of Liberty Puerto Rico. “We have been investing in our infrastructure and updating it to be able to provide a greater range of speeds and more advanced products that will improve the digital experience of our customers. This distinction is proof that these efforts have paid off. ”
The winners of the Speedtest Awards are determined using a score that incorporates a measure of the speeds to upload and download information from each provider to classify the performance of network speeds. Since most information transfers involve downloading data, 90 percent of the final speed score is attributed to the speed to go down and the remaining 10 percent to the speed to go up.
The Speed Score uses modified trimedia to demonstrate the speeds for downloading and uploading information that are available on a provider's network. Ookla takes velocity of the tenth, fifty (used as the median) and ninety percentile, and combines them on an average using a ratio of 1: 2: 1, respectively. Ookla puts more emphasis on the median since this is the speed that most customers experience daily.
“When it comes to the Internet offer, Liberty is the provider that offers the most innovative and most valuable products in Puerto Rico,” said Waldo Hooker, Vice President of Customer Experience at Liberty Puerto Rico. "Providing a fast and reliable Internet connection has always been crucial for us and we cannot be more proud to have this recognition of Ookla."
“We are very pleased to present Liberty Puerto Rico with the prize as the fastest Internet Network in Puerto Rico. This recognition is a testament to his exceptional performance in the third and fourth quarters, based on Ookla's rigorous analysis of consumer-initiated tests through Speedtest, ”said Jamie Steven , executive vice president of operations at Ookla .
Speedtest users by Ookla do speed tests of fixed and mobile Internet service providers, and then the results are analyzed and reported by Ookla. Prizes are awarded only to suppliers with the highest score in the country. To see the results of Puerto Rico, visit http://www.speedtest.net/awards/pr/isp/2017 .
Speedtest by Ookla is considered the global leader in Internet performance tests and metrics. The technology allows you to provide accurate and unbiased readings of Internet performance, which empowers consumers around the world to verify and fix their Internet speeds. Ookla is a global leader in applications, data and analysis to test speeds in the fixed and mobile Internet networks. Every day over 10 million tests are done across all Speedtest platforms, with almost 20 billion completed to date. This gives Ookla the most complete analysis on the performance and accessibility of the Internet in the world.
About Liberty Puerto Rico:
Liberty Puerto Rico is a subsidiary of Liberty Latin America Ltd. and has approximately 723,000 service units subscribed as of March 31, 2018 in 76 municipalities in the east, center, north, south and west of Puerto Rico. For more information, visit www.libertypr.com .
About Liberty Latin America:
Liberty Latin America Ltd. (“Liberty Latin America”) is a leading telecommunications company with operations in over 20 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean under the VTR, Flow, Liberty, Más Móvil and BTC brands. The communications and entertainment services we offer to our residential and business clients in the region increasingly include combinations of digital video services, broadband Internet, telephony and mobile services. Our business products and services include connectivity for companies, data centers, hosting, and managed solutions, as well as information technology solutions with clients ranging from small and medium enterprises to international companies and government agencies. Further,
Liberty Latin America has three separate classes of common shares that are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbols "LILA" (Class A) and "LILAK" (Class C), and on the OTC Link under the symbol "LILAB" (Class B).
For more information, visit www.lla.com .