it is available in select communities in the Sosua area, as I am sure you already know. The only people who would know about future expansion plans is Claro themselves and that might be expecting too much of that company.
Can some one tell me when (or if) the fiber optic cable is going to be available in Sosua?
Can some one tell me when (or if) the fiber optic cable is going to be available in Sosua?
I'm West Santo Domingo on Prolongacion 27 Feb, about a half a kilometer from Ave. Luperon.
May want to look at this area, there's a ton of apartment buildings going up.
BTW, the Govt. has been after the carriers for months (if not years) to improve their service. I don't think Claro is responding to Tricom - I think Tricom (because of it's size) can react faster to upgrading technology
The trunk line was already laid to the area. The actual connection to each community will depend on how many people call for the service to be offered on each sector.
Priority is being provided to large biz in the area first.
Claro wants to take over (monopoly after all) all three services. Tv, Internet and Phone (actually this last one is to include home and wireless service into the fold).
FO service with 100 Mbps ++ service will be the normal in the DR. Adding to that the fact that even as speeds increase exponentially, the prices will continue to drop as well.
Claro is testing a 4K channel as well. They aim to be the first to provide 4K service in the DR.
The real competition and speed increases for FO ISP will come when the second provider starts to unroll their services too.
This is just the beginning...
Claro is one of the worst companies in the world I ever had to deal with. They need to get over that first and the operative word is "will".
The rest of the world calls it bundling when you have internet, telephone and television all in one package. A monopoly is when you take over all of one type of business, not several different ones. It is just bundling, but it will likely be bungling if Claro is doing it.
My step daughter just got such a plan close to where you likely live for about $100 a month. How many
generations before that is possible in the DR? Around the same time there is 24/7 power?
internet, telephone and tv together are available for even well less than $100.- per month, and you do not need to live in a FO connected area for that. FO connections provide well higher speeds and cost even less, but that stuff is already and since long available via conventional cable connections. i work on such online 24/7, watch movies on Netflix and play games online, and i do not pay $100.- for all together including the phoneplan with actually 500 Free minutes to europe included.
Mike
Well not so correct for Higuey. Apparently, unless they pay millions to Karina and the Clan, they ain't laying one foot of ANY cable whatsoever in Higuey. They apparently had to pay 2 million in "fees" just to connect La Sirena with F/O, according to one of the zone supervisors. That's why the "redes" of Claro in Higuey are "todo podrido" a relict from the 80's. Not so in Bavaro or La Romana, but hey, Karina and her Clan have no sayin' there!
Aside from the private trunk above described, the DR gov is also installing a FO trunk of its own.
where's the darn Metro connecting DownTown Santo Domingo with DownTown Punta Cana???
they could lay their FO cable along the track, no need to further confiscate private land for a gov. run extra trunck, lol.
MIke
so riding on the bullet train i get a wireless fiberoptic connection to stay in touch with our Nanny when we visit the capital? it is important that i can skype with my 4 years ole babygirl, heck, why else did i give here that i-phone 6 for her 4th
Mike??
Anything for a kickback. Will that work as well as the DR Government being involved in power distribution?