I live in santo domingo but it seems this offer is valid all over the country where fast tricom internet is available. This is why I am posting it in living section.
yesterday i went to tricom to get an internet connection. It seems they will connect you with internet without having to get a separate land line phone for the house and their prices were like 400 pesos cheaper than claro (which can take 2-3 weeks to install).
so as I walked in to tricom on lope de vega store (has to be the tricom store which is a real tricom and not a affiliated store). So the deal was, what ever the internet speed you choose for your plan and get cable tv with that (plan max) you will get 1 meg download free forever. I liked this deal as I needed a cable tv plan as well for my new HDTV. I liked the fact I was getting 39 HD channels which included some of my favorite channels example; discovery HD and animal channels (to see my primos-hahaha). Total channels are 275 (i think).
So with internet 3 meg download, i was bumped up to 4 meg download and 768 upload. the price was for 3 meg. Then added up the cost for cable TV and taxes and the prices went up to 4000+. Yikex, I didn't like that at all. But there was a surprise waiting for me. The agent told me to add a minimum plan of phone line (200 minutes) and I will get a 20% discount on all the services I have. so when we added up the phone line with 200 minutes and then took off 20% the total prices of all 3 packages went down to 3290 pesos (including taxes).
In the beginning when I was not thinking of getting cable TV or home line because Only 4 meg download and cable Tv was going to cost me 3800+ pesos. So now I have 4 meg download, 275 channels (39 channels HD) and even a phone line and still it came out cheaper than my original deal which I had in mind.
Now I have compared claro HD channels vs tricom and I thought claro HD channels are horrible quality. They don't seem like HD at all as the picture resolution is not very fine. You will not see any detail on the faces of people and everything seems blurry. I have come to conclusion the HD video is way too much compressed to save the bandwidth. As a result the picture quality is no better than youtube blown up on full screen at 480P resolution. On the contrast tricom HD channels seemed more promising. They were not up to pars with the HD channels you people enjoy in USA but the quality of tricom was more acceptable than claro's.
Now here is the kicker:
I ordered service yesterday and within a hour the technicians were calling me to ask for my directions to come and install the system. wow wow wow. I have never imagined the service to be that quick. I remember for claro service I had to call everyday and scream and shout at supervisors for making false promises. it almost took me 3 weeks to get a connection. Tricom does it the same day. excellent service. I was compelled to decline the connection for the same day as I didn't even have lights in the new apartment. they will come on saturday. I hope the lights are turned on by then.
So folks, this is a good deal as just a fast internet service of 4 meg, alone (by claro) will set you back close to 2700 with taxes.
AZB
yesterday i went to tricom to get an internet connection. It seems they will connect you with internet without having to get a separate land line phone for the house and their prices were like 400 pesos cheaper than claro (which can take 2-3 weeks to install).
so as I walked in to tricom on lope de vega store (has to be the tricom store which is a real tricom and not a affiliated store). So the deal was, what ever the internet speed you choose for your plan and get cable tv with that (plan max) you will get 1 meg download free forever. I liked this deal as I needed a cable tv plan as well for my new HDTV. I liked the fact I was getting 39 HD channels which included some of my favorite channels example; discovery HD and animal channels (to see my primos-hahaha). Total channels are 275 (i think).
So with internet 3 meg download, i was bumped up to 4 meg download and 768 upload. the price was for 3 meg. Then added up the cost for cable TV and taxes and the prices went up to 4000+. Yikex, I didn't like that at all. But there was a surprise waiting for me. The agent told me to add a minimum plan of phone line (200 minutes) and I will get a 20% discount on all the services I have. so when we added up the phone line with 200 minutes and then took off 20% the total prices of all 3 packages went down to 3290 pesos (including taxes).
In the beginning when I was not thinking of getting cable TV or home line because Only 4 meg download and cable Tv was going to cost me 3800+ pesos. So now I have 4 meg download, 275 channels (39 channels HD) and even a phone line and still it came out cheaper than my original deal which I had in mind.
Now I have compared claro HD channels vs tricom and I thought claro HD channels are horrible quality. They don't seem like HD at all as the picture resolution is not very fine. You will not see any detail on the faces of people and everything seems blurry. I have come to conclusion the HD video is way too much compressed to save the bandwidth. As a result the picture quality is no better than youtube blown up on full screen at 480P resolution. On the contrast tricom HD channels seemed more promising. They were not up to pars with the HD channels you people enjoy in USA but the quality of tricom was more acceptable than claro's.
Now here is the kicker:
I ordered service yesterday and within a hour the technicians were calling me to ask for my directions to come and install the system. wow wow wow. I have never imagined the service to be that quick. I remember for claro service I had to call everyday and scream and shout at supervisors for making false promises. it almost took me 3 weeks to get a connection. Tricom does it the same day. excellent service. I was compelled to decline the connection for the same day as I didn't even have lights in the new apartment. they will come on saturday. I hope the lights are turned on by then.
So folks, this is a good deal as just a fast internet service of 4 meg, alone (by claro) will set you back close to 2700 with taxes.
AZB