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11-19-2007, 03:50 PM
The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) wants to implement a half billion-peso program to provide telecommunications services, including Internet, WIFI and telephone connections to one thousand communities in 16 provinces. Indotel head Jose Rafael Vargas told reporters from Hoy that the first phase of the program would cover half of the communities. According to Vargas these 16 provinces are very poorly connected, a problem that goes hand in hand with poverty levels there. Among the provinces that will benefit during the first phase are the seven frontier provinces plus San Jose de Ocoa, Azua, Hato Mayor, El Seibo, Monte Plata, Sanchez Ramirez and Santiago Rodriguez. According to Vargas, these communities are seriously lacking in telephone service and Internet access, as well as any sort of wireless service. Vargas said that it is no longer possible to say that the Dominican Republic is a country with excellent communications when there is "another Dominican Republic that is truly lacking in communications."
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