As any other utility essentials in the 21st century the internet today has strongly became a must have for many people. No I don't mean you're going to die if you don't get a dose of your daily Reddit trolling, or update your Facebook about your niece's 5th birthday party, but for those of you who rely on the internet for business and educational matters you know exactly what it means to get your lovely packets flowing through your living room and into your laptop. Well for me today was the big day, the internet was finally installed. Granted it wasn't as smooth going as it is in the mainland as with ISP companies like Comcast or AT&T. Below you see me having to physically help the service “technician” install the internet myself..
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| Holding cable while technician ran it to another post |
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| No fancy Liberty company truck just a beat up old truck |
Of course living in Puerto Rico means putting up with an abundance of working citizen tax dollars not being put to use. We had a post with cables that ran to our house and other nearby houses fall over a few months ago and the city did absolutely nothing about it. So what did the tech do? He decided to run the cable from 2 houses down all the way to the closest post which thank God happen to actually be quite close (across the street) from my house.The post he used still looked extremely beat up and to be honest I don't think it will last another strong tropical storm.
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| Running cable through living room wall |
Nevertheless the internet was up and running. In case you were curious and are technical savvy the cable the company used was a RG6 line. Now that the internet story has been told, ill tell you in greater details on why I chose Liberty as my desired ISP.
More details
So I did a bit of research on Google. The one link that did help me decided was This one
I chose liberty for many reasons, first they where a very popular and well known internet provider company. Second, the infrastructure that they use is physical landline cable (RG6) NOT cell phone towers like Claro does. I don't have anything against being connected to the internet over cell phone tower, but its just that hot spots tend to be quite dubious keeping a steady internet connection.Last but not least, upon going to Liberty's website I noticed that they were running a promotion. For only 10 month contract of 41.99 for 30 MBPS. I instantly decided to grab this deal. I was actually paying more in the mainland (Jacksonville, FL) than I am here and I get faster speeds.
My advice for you if you are going to get Liberty in PR is first and foremost, you must call to inquire about this deal. I don't know why they do not have a portal to sign up for new customers. But I am guessing its because we are in Puerto Rico and they make everything 10x more difficult than they should be. Another tip I will give you is this. This tip is very valuable as I was not aware of this when I called.
Most ISP companies and some utility companies more than likely will ask you for your Social Security Number to run your credit. I was asked to provide my SSN to the liberty operator over the phone, I quickly asked her why she needed my social. She simply stated that its to check if you are a good paying customer or not. She also mentioned that if you have good credit the installation is free, im not sure if she was BSing me or not but I had no option but to give her my SSN because if not she would charge me for installation. She gave me a date of when the technician would arrive and that was that.
Credit Check
A few days later I decided to check my credit on the app credit karma, I noticed that 1 Hard credit check was recently used on my credit and low and behold it was the ISP company Liberty that ran it. At first I was worried because upon Googling what a hard credit check does to your credit I saw that it was mainly used for loans, I thought that someone over at liberty was using my credit to take out a loan of some sort that I never authorized but after researching a bit more I found out that its completely normal for utility companies to run hard credit checks. See here for more details: Here
Also Google: hard credit check vs soft. Its always good to know about your credit and how things work.
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