Telecommunications In The Dominican Republic
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, ADSL, WIMAX, EDGE, EV-DO and UMTS/HSDPA 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. Tricom, S.A, Wind Telecom and Claro Codetel provide television services digitally, with channels from around Latin America and elsewhere in the world.
Telephones - main lines in use: 1,009,906 (2010)
Mobile phones: 8,892,783 (2010)
Mobile teledensity: 91.3% (2010)
VoIP Lines: 72,894 (2009)
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 143, FM 247, shortwave 14 (2008)
Radios: 1.44 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 46 (2008)
Televisions: 770,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 8 (2008)
Internet Accounts: 622,931 (2010)
Internet Users: 3,851,278 (2010)
Pay TV Subscribers: 249,010 (2010)
Country code: DO
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