Communications in Santo Domingo

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Santo Domingo as the Capital of The Dominican Republic is a major city of Communications. Its Said to be number one most of Central American & Caribbean Nations.

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[edit] Television Signals In Santo Domingo

They are 15 TV stations (both UHF and VHF) in Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo greatest number of TV signals in the country, followed by Santiago De los Caballeros.

Additional cable TV channels are provided by companies like Aster , Cable TV Dominicana and Telecable.

VHF

  • Teleantillas (2)
  • CERTV (4)
  • Telemicro (5)
  • Antena Latina (7)
  • Color Visión (9)
  • Telesistema (11)
  • Telecentro (13)

UHF

  • Digital 15 (15)
  • Telefuturo (23)
  • RNN (27)
  • Supercanal (33)
  • CDN (37)
  • Coral 39 (39)
  • Teleradio América (canal 45)
  • Santo Domingo TV (canal 69)

[edit] Radio Stations In Santo Domingo

In Santo Domingo there are 34 different station in AM frequency and 44 in FM frequency.

[edit] Telephone Provider

Codetel used to be the National Telephony provider in the Dominican Republic since the 1940's under the Compania De telofonos Dominicana until the company was bought by Verizon.Inc. Verizon provides the same Services as Codetel and extra ones like ADSL.

The Second Competitor is Tricom which has a small share in The National Market while Verizon Holds most of the Consumers.

The National Area Code is 1+809. In Year 2005 a New area Code was made as an overlay of 1-809 due to population growth. 1-829 is the new area code for the nation due to the fact that extensive Fax, Internet, Mobile, Dry Lines were created after the Mid-90's. the Dominican Republic officially uses 1+809-XXX-XXXX and 1+829-XXX-XXXX system.

[edit] Internet Information

.do is the internet code for The Dominican Republic. A large amount of Internet user are in the Dominican Republic with more than 400,000 users.