2004News

Telecom numbers

The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) reports, on occasion of the World Day of Telecommunications that in the DR, the stats for telecommunications are:

2 million mobile lines

1 million wired lines

2 million indirect users of the Internet

868,000 direct Internet users

500 rural public telephones

255 rural clinics with telemedicine facilities

27 hospitals with Internet connections and five with videoconferencia facilities

500 computer labs and 20,000 professors in local schools

25 tech centers or community Internet centers