Claro Puerto Rico

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Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico

Company type	Subsidiary
Traded as	Claro Puerto Rico
Predecessor	Puerto Rico Telephone Company (Telefónica de Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico Communications Corporation (Autoridad de Comunicaciones)
Founded	1914; 110 years ago (1914)
Headquarters	Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Revenue	$1.2 billion USD
Number of employees	4,649
Parent	ITT Corporation 1920–1974 Government-owned corporations of Puerto Rico 1974–1998 GTE 1998–2000 Verizon Wireless 2000–2007 América Móvil 2007–present
Subsidiaries	CoquiNet Corporation, Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Inc.
Website	claropr.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.