DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), Nelson Arroyo says the Dominican government will receive between US$200 million and US$300 million for the lease of the 700 MHZ and 3.5 GHz bands of the radio spectrum for the deployment of the 5G network, as reported in Acento.

“The 5G is the fifth generation in mobile technology that will revolutionize telecommunications significantly because it will give much more speed to the Internet service here,” he says. He explained that at present the spectrum operates between 10 megabytes to 100 megabytes, with a connection capacity of one thousand. “With 5G we will be able to reach up to 10 thousand megabytes, so it is an extraordinary speed,” he said Arroyo when interviewed by Pablo McKinney for “En McKinney” on Color Visión television. He said with 5G the connection capacity will be one million per square kilometer...