The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) has announced that it will submit a formal proposal to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for assistance in its effort to amend the country’s Telecommunications Law that dates back to 1998.
According to Indotel’s president José del Castillo Saviñón there is an urgent need for a review and update of the law that governs the tele-communication industry due to the rapid growth within the sector, and the profusion of new technologies constantly being developed. He said that a goal of revision of the Telecommunications Law is to ensure universal access to telecommunications, promote social inclusion and strengthen the regulatory capacity and effectiveness of the government.
Indotel recently announced its support for a bill being discussed in the government that proposes eliminating taxes on Internet services to reduce the ‘digital divide’ so that a full 70% of the population will have access to the internet by 2020, as reported in Telecompaper.
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Telecom Paper
7 February 2017
