 Our Objectives |
· Promote the development of telecommunications by implementing the principle of Universal Service defined by the General Law of Telecommunications 153-98
· Guarantee the existence of a sustainable, loyal and effective competition in presenting the public telecommunication services
· Defend and effectively carry out the rights of clients
· Guard for the efficient use of the radio-electric spectrum by the public domain in the Dominican Republic.
| Our Duties |
INDOTEL carries out the following duties:
· Elaborate general regulations and dictate specific norms, within the boundaries of the Law
· Regulate, grant, extend and revoke concessions and licenses in conditions predicted by the effective norm
· Prevent or correct anticompetitive or discriminatory practices
· Regulate, grant and manage the orbital-spectrum resources
· Dissolve, according to the principles of the Law and its regulations and in defense of public interest, the different disputes that could arise between the suppliers of telecommunication services
· Control the execution of the obligations of the concessionaires of public telecommunication services and of the users of the radio-electric spectrum
· Fix, whenever necessary, the service rates for the public and the interconnection charges
· Manage, grant and control the use of the radio-electric spectrum
· Apply the Sanctioning Regime before the administrative faults commission as foreseen by the Law and its regulations
· Manage and grant CDT resources
· Approve, consult and coordinate with interested parties, and manage the fundamental technical telecommunication plans
· Dictate the technical norms that guarantee the technical, operational and functional compatibility of the public telecommunication nets
· Elaborate technical specifications for the approval of equipment, appliances and systems for telecommunications
· Manage its own resources
· Exercise the faculty of inspection
· Propose to the Executive Power, through motivated resolutions, the value of the reserve radio-electric units
· Guarantee in the "National plan of frequency attribution" the bands and frequencies reserve necessary for the organs of national defense.
| Our Resources |
INDOTEL, conforming to article 102 of Law No. 153-98, is financed through the following economic resources:
· The corresponding established percentage of the Contribution for the Development of Telecommunications (CDT)
· The right of the public domain to use the radio-electric spectrum
· The rights that are established in the procedures for the granting of concessions and licenses
· The earnings of its own patrimony
· The budget appropriations assigned by the Central Government
· What it can obtain through ant other means.
| Our Projects |
The promotion of Universal Service is one of the main principles of INDOTEL. In order to consider telecommunications services universal, INDOTEL plans to raise the coverage of its services and diversify the offer by financing infrastructure, development and telecommunication services projects that can be self-sustained, efficient and effective.
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In this sense, the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) prepared a biannual plan that plans the following development programs:
· Public Telephone
· Tele-Medicine
· Tele-Education
· Tele-Centers
 Public Telephone Project |
Description
This project consists of the installation of at least one public telephone, at reasonable prices, able to take incoming and outgoing calls, both national and international, wherever there is a population of over 300 residents.
Phase 1: end of December 2001
Phase 2: beginning of 2001
General Objective
The objective is to promote the expansion of the public net infrastructure in all rural and urban, low-income areas.
| Tele-Medicine Project |
Description
Develop a pilot network that interconnects higher-level health institutions with those located in hard to access rural areas in our country.
General Objective
Promote the development of the health sector.
| Tele-Education Project in conjunction with the Ministry of Education |
Description
The implementation of a digital network for the regional exchange of information focusing on the development of education through the use of information and communications technologies.
General Objective
To provide training to children and adults by means of an access to a central portal.
| Community Tele-centers Project |
Description
This project calls for the installation of 15 community tele-centers in several provinces within the country. Phase I contemplates 7 units and phase II the 8 remaining units. In these tele-centers the users will be able to access information and communication technologies, access the Internet, rely on a service of long distance calls and a fax service at affordable prices. |
