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Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Telephone Company (Codetel) has announced that in the first three months of this year it would be taking the Rural Broadband Connectivity to 192 ports in several parts of the country as part of its expansion plan for this system that it is being carried out in coordination with the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel).

Codetel president Oscar Peña also announced that they had repaired several damaged connectivity ports in the communities of Altamira, Puerto Plata, and in Monte Plata.

The telephone company says it is expanding the number of ports because of the increased demand for telephone lines from new users, as a result of the push the service has received from the Rural Broadband Connectivity project.

Last November Indotel president José Rafael Vargas said that the Rural Broadband Connectivity project would be taken to 508 communities in the country’s 32 provinces over the next 345 days, providing telephone and Internet services to homes in municipalities and municipal district, and 179 hamlets in the poorest 16 provinces in the DR.

The Codetel president said that in the case of Monte Plata, there are 16 available ports that are used for high-speed plans, mainly used by businesses.

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9 comment(s)
Written by: josean, 10 Jan 2009 9:27 AM
From: United States
The good news is I will have broad and in a year, the bad news is I will have electricity in 200 years!
Written by: dreadlocks, 10 Jan 2009 9:34 AM
From: United States
yes, josean; you will have to operate your computer by lamplight.
Written by: neon_genesis, 10 Jan 2009 11:31 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Bonao
i use solar power ahhahah!! and wind turbine
Written by: gatitapequena, 10 Jan 2009 12:34 PM
From: United States, Somewhere in the World
neon_genesis..........good job, your my hero!!!!!!!
Written by: maxsanpedro, 12 Jan 2009 1:44 PM
From: Netherlands
Well, well that looks good news. But why don't the telecoms company don't fix their current services first. They charge enough to be able to invest in the technical infrastructure that support their services.

By the way, when will number portability been supported?
Written by: belly51, 25 Feb 2009 1:46 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Francisco y Houston,TX
We have to stop waiting for some magic to happen and use the PC for usefull research and find answer instead of bring question. more something like this but cheap http://www.tomshardware.com/revie....-foundations-diy-solar-powered-pc,1680.html
maybe someone here can come up with something
Written by: DaniDr, 25 Feb 2009 2:13 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Codetel, if you are reading this, we need cheaper ADSL/Flash, and it's time for a speed bump! Plan's max speed is 1.5MBPS and most of the week you can't even get near the maximum theoretical output!
Written by: El_Magnate1, 3 Mar 2009 5:38 PM
From: United States, Bronx, New York
Hello everyone. Reading some of the coments, I realized that some of you are aways criticizing in a negative way everything that you read here. It seem that you guys take everything to politic and don't agree with the current admistration. Maybe you guys follow some other political party which at the end, all the different political parties are the same (Thief or ladrones). It is good to give opinions and criticizes, but in a positive and constructive way. We should be proud of what the telephone company are doing. The Dominican Republic is one of the most develop country and the comunication field even though we are a sub-develop country. Nosotros los dominicanos privamos en muy politiqueros y partidista. Todos los partidos sin ecepcion de ningunos son lacras para la sociedad y si el pueblo nunca se pone de acuerdo nunca vamos a salir de el sub-dezarollo.
Written by: josean, 3 Mar 2009 6:21 PM
From: United States
"Nosotros los dominicanos privamos en muy politiqueros y partidista. Todos los partidos sin ecepcion de ningunos son lacras para la sociedad y si el pueblo nunca se pone de acuerdo nunca vamos a salir de el sub-dezarollo.'

NOW WHO IS BEING NEGATIVE AGAIN?
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