{"id":54547,"date":"2014-06-23T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=54547"},"modified":"2014-06-23T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:14:14","slug":"dr-has-most-expensive-broadband-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/06\/23\/dr-has-most-expensive-broadband-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"DR has most expensive broadband Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The former president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), now senator Jose Rafael Vargas (PLD-Espaillat \/Moca) has denounced the fact that Dominican consumers have to pay the highest broadband rates in Latin America due what he says is a lack of investment and expansion of the service. He said that when he left Indotel there was a RD$953 million fund for investment in expanding the service, but it has not been implemented. &#8220;With that investment, people in rural areas could have access to the Internet,&#8221; he said. He stressed the importance of having access to the Internet.  <\/p>\n<p> Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.listin.com.do\/la-republica\/2014\/6\/22\/326908\/RD-paga-el-mas-alto-precio-por-banda-ancha-en-America-Latina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former president of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), now senator Jose Rafael Vargas (PLD-Espaillat \/Moca) has denounced the fact that Dominican consumers have to pay the highest broadband rates in Latin America due what he says is a lack of investment and expansion of the service. He said that when he left Indotel there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/06\/23\/dr-has-most-expensive-broadband-internet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}