Hopefully this will help DR consumers

AlterEgo

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One thing there is no shortage of is complaints about telecom providers in DR, hopefully this will help

From todays DR1 News:

Supreme Administrative Court rules in favor of consumers

The Supreme Administrative Court has given the Dominican Telecom Institute (Indotel) 30 days to review the contracts of telecom companies to eliminate clauses that violate the rights of consumers. The court accepted a petition from the Press and Law Foundation (Fundacion Prensa y Derecho). It ordered the telecom companies to send the contracts to Proconsumidor for revision. These are the contracts that consumers need to sign to receive telecom services. The ruling 447-2013 is dated 22 November and was signed by judges Rafael Ciprian, Mildred Hernandez Grullon and Evelyn Torres. The recourse was submitted by lawyer Namphi Rodriguez for the Fundacion Prensa y Derecho on 3 October. He claimed that the telecom companies included abusive clauses in the telecom contracts. The ruling affects contracts signed by Orange Dominicana, Claro-Codetel, Wind Telecom, Viva and Tricom. The companies were represented by lawyers Olivo Rodriguez Hertas and Flavio Dario Espinal. The Fundacion was represented by Juan Antonio Delgado, Namphi Rodriguez, Belen Felix, Roman Jaquez and Jovany Matos, as reported in El Caribe.
 

Criss Colon

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The judge gave the companies 30 days to comply, Sooooooooooooooooooo they will have enough time to "Buy Off" all the politicians necessary to continue ripping us off!
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"Proconsumidor" was already,"Bought & Paid For" during the "Salami Scandal" !!!!!!
 

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Even though your intention is to give hope to the wide cross-section of the population I must say that the ambiguity of the above statement leaves much to be desired. I would be hopeful if right there and then he would have stricken the appropriate clauses and ruled in favor of the consumer thereby setting a precedent.
 

sayanora

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I bet contracts like Wind's 18 month contract with no cancellation was part of this.. In order to cancel they actually expected us to pay the full amount for all of the months remaining in the contract. A quick letter from our attorney and a visit later we cancelled with no penalty. The reason they do bull**** like this is for dom yorks .. they take out contracts and leave the country for 6 months at a time and just send the money to pay without looking at the fine print, it's a flat out scam.