Archive for the 'Telecommunications' Category

Codetel in the countryside

Monday, May 12th, 2008

The Dominican Telephone Company (CODETEL) has expanded its “Rural Broadband Connections” program by linking three more communities to the Internet. The program is designed to bring the Internet to the country’s remotest communities and serve a million and a half people who do not have access to this type of communication. A total of [...]

Isolated Dominican island’s students get the Web at last

Monday, April 7th, 2008

La Romana.- A girl’s eyes light up with astonishment, incredulity and innocence when she “clicked” a computer menu in front of her to access the Earth Sciences chapter provided by the Encyclopedia Encarta.
The students of the Adamanay grade school on Saona Island will now have access to Internet, as part of the communication network to [...]

VIVA Wireless debuts in Dominican telecom market

Monday, April 7th, 2008

SANTO DOMINGO.- (BUSINESS WIRE)–Trilogy International Partners, an American holding company which invests in wireless telecommunication operations outside the United States, today announced the launch of its new telecommunications company in the Dominican Republic, VIVA. Trilogy International Partners acquired Centennial Dominicana in March of 2007, and has restructured and reinvigorated the operation.
Under Trilogy’s leadership, the existing [...]

6.5 million telephones

Monday, April 7th, 2008

There are 6.5 million telephones in operation in the DR, a country with an estimated 9.5 million inhabitants. Of these, 5.5 million are cell phones, of which 97% are digital, according to the president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel).