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Vargas says the DR doubled its bandwidth capacity

Geneva.- The Dominican Telecom Institute (Indotel) will supply telecommunication access to the another 1,000 rural communities in the Dominican Republic, as part of an initiative aimed at providing Internet broadband and home telephones in all towns with more than 300 inhabitants.

“The new goal seeks to obtain in addition to the barrios and municipal districts in the Caribbean country’s 32 provinces, for which the Dominican Telephone Company (CODETEL) was contracted to take broadband and telephone services to 508 communities through the Rural Connectivity broadband project,” said Indotel president Jose Rafael Vargas in a statement.

The official provided the information in the forum “Rethinking rural access in the micro-telecommunications business,” held in the World Telecommunications Conference ‘ITU World Telecom 2009’ in Switzerland.

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Written by: xwill7, 13 Oct 2009 11:55 AM
From: United States, Chicago
The teenagers will be on hi5, myspace, and facebook
Written by: ElTorodeCibao, 13 Oct 2009 12:25 PM
From: United States
"The teenagers will be on hi5, myspace, and facebook "

When the powers actually running.
Written by: xwill7, 13 Oct 2009 5:47 PM
From: United States, Chicago
dominicancupid will benifit from this
Written by: Botemon, 13 Oct 2009 6:32 PM
From: Dominican Republic, La Isabella
The Dominican Telecom Institute (Indotel) seems to be the one group in this country that actually does what they say and their history in this country is proof. I'm impressed. It also seems to be "corruption resistant" as far as I can tell. They have been, and are doing great things in the Dominican Republic! Bringing people and ideas together through communications can only benefit everyone, especially the young folks, in the long term!
Hats off to you!
Written by: ElTorodeCibao, 13 Oct 2009 6:36 PM
From: United States
We can only hope this encourages more of our youth to latch on to the ethos of low class American values.
Written by: DoggPound, 14 Oct 2009 8:11 AM
From: United States
Another 1000 members for Badoo!

Finally getting phones....that's great considering Alexander Graham Bell died 100 years ago.....any idea when fresh water and consistant electricity will show up?

After the next leg of the IMF paid for METRO? Ot the many new roads to nowhwere also paid for by the rest of the world?
Written by: xwill7, 14 Oct 2009 10:27 AM
From: United States, Chicago
boteman,
they are doing all of these upgrades to make more money, not to help anyone. They want to get people hooked on their service. Once you go high tech, you cant go back to liking without a cell phone or internet
Written by: Blutarsky, 15 Oct 2009 11:40 AM
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Toro stop begrudging the campesinos progress and Three cheers for Slim ....the youth are spiraling down without cheap cell phones anyway
Written by: ZonaDominicana, 17 Oct 2009 3:52 AM
From: United States, San Diego, California
1,000 towns sounds exaggerated. About training the young in IT and website developing like PHP, AJAX, Javascript, flash, and others. Those computer centers are just used to surf the web and be on Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, etc.
Written by: Blutarsky, 17 Oct 2009 7:43 AM
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Nothing would happen if Mexico Slim didn't pay for it .....INDOTEL ???? dont make me laugh
Written by: ElTorodeCibao, 18 Oct 2009 1:57 PM
From: United States
First off Mr. Blutarsky this is the first time I didn't realize who you were after coming back. haha

Campesinos don't need facebook! ;)
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