the Dominican Republic doing business with the communist government of Vietnam? what is vacanos going to say?

Viva la revolution!

wtf!!!

I say there are better suitors out there.

give us your list, lovingit. then, when you are done, tell us why.

What the hell is this story all about????
sorry twice

The more competition the better. Let's hope it will lower the tariffs within the industry.

If you don't pay your bill, they send you to the Hanoi Hilton

Miguel Mejia, ad vitam secretary of state without portfolio alias (the manatee) is involved behind the scenes in this deal, same as he was point man for the (failed) bushu mainland Chinese bid to install two huge carbon fueled, electric power plants.
I really don't see this project materializing and competing with Codetel, Orange and others.
Mr. Mejia has always been full of hot air, using his commie sponsors (including Chavez) to pay up his
high maintenance life style, of hedonistic pursuits, while living in his "glorious" revolutionary past, just visiting the guerrilla tunnels in Vietnam, posing as a red "freedom fighter".

considering the usa criminal communist government runs the DR government from behind the curtain, it only makes sense another communist company moves in

Great: DR charges are extortion: three times China , Thailand and Vietnam charges. This can help DR become more competitive - the mistake was made not to set up a DR government owned mobile operator so now we have unsightly towers littered everywhere, pathetic service and not even the whole country is covered.

US made the same mistake : now charges are among the highest in the World and service among the poorest to feed the fat cat private duopoly there.

abc 200

Let the Vietnamese do it, then at least it will work. Give them the CDEEE too.

Written by: lovingit,

"I say there are better suitors out there."

There are better suitors but none dumb enough. Verizon bailed after only 2 years, Vodafone is still suing people, Telefonica want to sell their share of Tricom, ATT, Sprint, T-mobil won't even consider it.

i have to agree with ABC. i went to Expo Cibao, and i met people from the caribbean, and Brazil. two people, one from Grenada, and one from Guyana, asked me what is the matter with internet here. i told them i wished that i could give them an answer. i had better internet in the USA, 15 years ago, in the era of dial-up, than i have today. if you want decent internet here , it costs an arm and a leg. if you just want normal, domestic coverage, forget it. it is down one moment, and up the next. it took me 1 hour 33 minutes to download a 7 minute song on youtube. i could have written the song in less time.

Vivcub; You know nothing. All of your envious posts are just stupid and bigoted. Probably from long observation, the Vietnamese are certain that a country with this many cheats can easily be scammed into lopsided service contracts.

Hahahaha!! I remember, I was in the West Bank once, Ramalah. I was trying to find a bus to get back to Jerusalem. This friendly Palestinian old man who surprisingly spoke Spanish helps me and walked with me the block and a half to the bus station. He asks me "where are you from"?
I told him, I'm from Dominican Republic.
Oh there is a lot of corruption there, right? Asks the old Palestinian.
I was like ay cooooonho.....

The people that want government owned industries are the same people that don't stop whining about government corruption. The state should play its role and that's set the rules and regulate and leave business to the private sector. I don't mind a foreign state owned company entering the DR and competing with the private sector. Communism is still a failure though.

Written by: Vivacuba, 24 Sep 2012 12:09 PMFrom: Dominican Republic

"considering the usa criminal communist government runs the DR government from behind the curtain, it only makes sense another communist company moves in"

You hit the nail right on the head.

Damn Yankees are the Biggest Commies, the just wear a different suit.

@ DaveB,

U No nothing....

You have been brain washed, you fool...(translated) Come Salami

Now that I have cleared the air,

I think this would be good for the DR, someone need to make the other guys play clean.

Orange, Claro, Viva and ThreeCom all suck big time.

PS, can i pay my bill with rice?

LMAO

Hahahahaha

Anybody who thinks the addition of a new player in mobile service in the DR is going to help quality and cost has no clue.

Viettel has signed off on the way they do business in the D.R. and will just help perpetuate corruption and graft.

Another jewel of Commie hypocrisy. Now the commies want to be capitalists, of course they do, they stole everybody's business and now they are the ones who own everything. The commies are the biggest capitalist around, just better disguised. The DR has been a target for Communist influence for a long time. Now they are infiltrating the country by way of business deals. If i was Dominican i would be very worried of all these business deals with Commies. And Vietnam? Don't Vietnamese need phones and internet? So what are they doing in the DR? Bunch of hypocrites. Abajo la Revolucion , partia de ladrones he hiprocritas.

Chicharrony, ever considered leaving the hard liquor until the weekends?

@Dread

Better suitors out there include companies like T-Mobile, for example, that want to exit the US Market (not that they want to enter the DR market either though)

300MM is no where near enough to start a telecom business and make a real competitive impact. Why even bother allowing this company to put up shop then?

@everyone with Internet problems.

I visit the DR 1-2 times a year. My family has DSL (which is pretty much obsolete as a qualified "Broadband" service in the US) but I have never had issues with it and the speed is what I expect from DSL. So no complain here. I know many people in the US that could only do dial up because no type of Broadband is in their area.

Hey Mr. D: Is not I who should leave the hard liquor for the w-ends, is you who should leave the marijuana all together. The point is that is not just about business is about influence. When an American company tries to enter a poor country many of you philo-commies start to point fingers at the bad capitalists coming to take advantage of others; but when a commie company goes into a country like the DR, some people defend it, with words like increase competition and better service. How pathetic and naive. Foreign companies are not the answer to the problems in the DR, not Americans, not Vietnamese, not Russians, not Italian, but Dominican companies helping their own people and not siphoning the money into some other country and into someone else's pocket.

lovingit, there are a few independent guys in places like Sosua (i think) that are starting up small internet companies. surely, they do not have 300 million. the whole idea is competition. if these guys start to take market share away from the big guys, maybe they will be forced to provide decent service. as to Chicharrony...you sound like you have not gotten the news that the cold war is over. what is with all these commie references? do you think the Vietnamese are using Viettel as a trojan horse to infiltrate the DR, politically? i agree that foreign companies are not the answer. what is needed is for Dominican companies to take the reins, and do things like this themselves. the problem is that the concept of customer service methodologies has never been understood in the DR, and that makes provision of such a service a difficult proposition.

Vietnam is a capitalistic society. They only prosecute people for insulting communism.

Graft is gigantic. Can't do a thing there without paying off a commie official.

I was in Saigon a year ago and the place is booming. Reminded me of any first world country except for Domnican style electrical wiring which was even worse believe it or not.

People make a living there because they have an Uncle or someone of influence. I can't wait to go back next month. Skysrapers are popping up everywhere you look and the women are as lovely as Dominicans.

2 hour massge is about 300 pesos including cucumbers in the eyes::)

news.yahoo.com/seaport-delay-highlights-shaky-vietnam-economy-090123855--finance.html

Interesting read about Vietnam, Communism etc.

The cold war is not over. It has just changed dimensions. How pathetic that the same people who have for over 50 years criticized capitalism, denounced it as the evil of the world, the oppressor of the poor and working class are now are same ones who are embracing it with a passion and fervor worthy of a Adam Smith gold medal award. . How hypocritical for these "former" communist (who are still in power) to nationalize everybody's business, take it from them and now they are the ones who are doing business deals. And yes there is growth in Vietnam, and who owns the companies? Former commies leaders or their families. Like in China. Why is it ok to mention capitalists and not communists if the cold war is over? Why do we decry the Walmart but not the Viettel? Do I smell a double-hipocrital standard here? Or is that you Mr. Dreadlocks with your sinse?