Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, September 20, 2020 -

T-Mobile announced today that it has joined Engine 4 as a founding partner of the first 5G & NB-IOT Open Innovation LAB in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands with the purpose of bringing together developers, start-ups, companies, academic institutions and governmental institutions together with the collaboration of corporate partners.

"Today more than ever we have evidenced the vital role technology plays in keeping us connected and allowing us to adapt quickly to change, or as we now call it the new reality, from healthcare, to schools and universities, to restaurants, to millions of workers in companies of all sizes who have moved from in-person to virtual offices. With technology like 5G, we will drastically change the infrastructure to do even more and boost Puerto Rico's socio-economic development. T-Mobile has the widest and fastest 5G network in Puerto Rico, with coverage in areas of all the towns in Puerto Rico, in Vieques and Culebra, and now we are providing a space for the development and education of the solutions of the present and the future," said Jorge Martel, vice president and general manager of T-Mobile Puerto Rico.

T-Mobile has leveraged its leadership and expertise to provide equipment and its 5G and NB-IoT technology to support Engine 4 and its partners in the development of applications and solutions, such as those that recently enabled the rapid production of face shields and 3D swabs, among others, which have been distributed to several healthcare institutions since April of this year in the wake of the pandemic, and for agricultural monitoring. Today this collaboration has been amplified, with the commitment to supporting development, education, investment and innovation in Puerto Rico.

"We are proud to add a partner like T-Mobile to this effort. In this lab we will focus on emerging applications for artificial intelligence (AI) computing and more, developing innovative applications and services that highlight the potential of T-Mobile's 5G and NB-IOT network," explained Luis Armando Torres and Jose J. Torres, co-founders of Engine 4. Engine 4's main mission is to bring together participants of all ages under one roof to learn about the technology being created today and tomorrow, that is not being taught in schools. It also has a large group of corporate and government partners and collaborators to achieve this, among them are: Hewlett-Packard, Aruba Network, Fiber X, Microsoft, IBM, Evertec, Intel, Arecibo Radio Telescope, DDEC, Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, NODO, Municipality of Bayamón, RICHO, NUISX, TREDE and AlQMY.

The lab, located in the Municipality of Bayamon, has 41,000 square feet and is initially focused on education and companies that are developing emerging 5G and NB-IOT applications and services within the agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare and entertainment industries. "We are working harder than ever to expand and build a transformative 5G network for everyone. We must build something bigger than ourselves: an ecosystem that goes far beyond the realm of traditional telecommunications. It will be a platform for innovation limited only by our creativity and imagination. We will welcome entrepreneurs, innovators and developers to create the applications of the future from here. Leading Puerto Rico to become a hub of technological innovation," concluded Martel.

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