The median annual household income in Puerto Rico is $18,862,...
The median annual household income in Puerto Rico is $18,862, according to the most recent Census data, an attorney for Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico said in a letter to the commission. The company submitted the information to update its…
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application to extend a waiver of CableCARD rules. Without the waiver, Liberty said it wouldn’t be able to introduce new services that are affordable to its subscribers (CD Sept 20 p3). The median income for Liberty Cablevision’s service areas is probably even lower “given that Liberty does not serve the most affluent part of Puerto Rico, which is San Juan,” the letter said. “However, the above figure is sufficient to demonstrate that the economic conditions in Liberty’s service area remain substantially different from the continental United States,” where the median household income is more than $50,000, the letter said.