The four telecommunications providers in the DR – Verizon, Tricom, Orange and Centennial – are authorized to start assigning the new 829 area code to both cable and wireless lines, in addition to the 809 code currently in use, as reported in Diario Libre. This information comes from the Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL) Director Jose Rafael Vargas, who announced the launch of an advertising campaign to increase awareness of the new code.