The Department of Customs announced that, in coordination with the new authorities at the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel), they will implement certain mechanisms to assess taxes owed for the irregular import of mobile phones in the past. Miguel Cocco, as the Customs director, said that millions of pesos in official revenue were evaded with the improper import of the cell phones units. Cocco said that given the small size of a cell phone, smuggling them in to the country was an easy matter.