Communications in the Dominican Republic
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The Dominican Republic has extensive mobile phone and land-line services. INDOTEL, Instituto Dominicano De Telecomunicaciones, regulates and supervises the development of the country telecommunications market. The Dominican Republic has Cable Internet and ADSL in most parts of the country. Projects to extend Wi-Fi (wireless internet) hots spots have been undertaken in Santo Domingo. Numerous television channels are available. Telecable Nacional provides television services digitally, with channels from around Latin America and elsewhere in the world.
Telephones - main lines in use: 944,334 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 4,558,351 (2006)
Telephone system:
domestic: very efficient system based on island-wide microwave radio relay network and fiber optics lines that cover many of the main cities
international: connected to the ARCOS (America's Region Caribbean Optical-ring System); 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite earth station - 1; Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 120, FM 56, shortwave 4 (1998)
Radios: 1.44 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 25 (1997)
Televisions: 770,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 5 [Verizon, Tricom, Aster, Centennial (wireless), France Telecom (wireless)] (2006)
Internet Accounts: 183,876 (2006)
Country code: DO
- See also : Dominican Republic
Indotel (Dominican Republic Communications Regulation Authority)
