Santo Domingo.– The Dominican Republic's fixed-line teledensity is well below the Latin American average, while mobile penetration is nearly ten times higher than fixed-line teledensity, and is about average for Latin America.

Although enjoying a relatively modern and mostly digital telecom system, the Dominican Republic's income inequalities are still reflected in its telephone distribution; some people own multiple mobile phones each, yet there are communities comprising hundreds of families without access to a single phone line.

The Dominican Republican government has been aggressively addressing the issue of access with a number of projects and a major broadband deployment partnership with incumbent Codetel.

Although the global financial crisis took its toll on the economies of the Caribbean region, which contracted by an average of 2% during 2009, the Dominican Republic stood in stark contrast with positive growth of around 2%. Accordingly, investment in telecommunications and emerging services such as wireless broadband and VoIP continued to strengthen during 2009 and early 2010.

A new report provides detailed analysis of the telecommunications market with overviews and statistics of the Dominican Republic's fixed-line, mobile and broadband markets.