I have just purchase a Villa in Cap Cana and i saw my neighbor with a directv dish. Thank god he was there staying and i asked him how he could get Directv in the DR. He explain to me that Directv service and all there packages are available in Puerto rico and Punta cana was only about 40 miles from the coast of Puerto Rico in the Loop of the signal. He said what he did is contact an Independent contractor that will sell to you the package including box and antenna all you have to do is so Directv will send you the bill is provide a Puertorican address that easily you could obtained by opening a PMB Private Mail Box account in a UPS store or some other franchise it will cost you 100 dollars and it will give you the right of that address for a year but is renewable every year so you don't loose your local address. Then you will go to the webpage of Diretvpr and pay over the net with your credit card or whatever they don't don't care. This guy told me he is very happy because he gets all the Sports Packages available in the U.S NFL ticket, MLB, NBA, NHL every package you want plus allot of local channels of cbs,nbc,Abc, form the west and east and all the regular American channels as well as packages you want for international channels. He said signal is good even if it rains and everything is done over the net. He also told me to get best signal this contractor with put you in contact with someone in the Punta cana area that knows how to install it and get best signal?????