Communications in Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo as the capital of The Dominican Republic is a major city in the country when it comes to communications.

Television Signals In Santo Domingo

They are 15 TV stations (both UHF and VHF) in Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo has the greatest number of TV signals in the country, followed by Santiago De los Caballeros.

Additional cable TV channels are provided by companies like Aster , Cable TV Dominicana and Telecable.

VHF
*Teleantillas (2)
*CERTV (4)
*Telemicro (5)
*Antena Latina (7)
*Color Visión (9)
*Telesistema (11)
*Telecentro (13)

UHF
*Digital 15 (15)
*Telefuturo (23)
*RNN (27)
*Supercanal (33)
*CDN (37)
*Coral 39 (39)
*Teleradio América (canal 45)
*Santo Domingo TV (canal 69)

Radio Stations In Santo Domingo
In Santo Domingo there are 34 different stations in AM frequency and 44 in FM frequency.

Telephone Provider
Codetel was originally the provider of telephone service in the Dominican Republic since the 1940s, under the Compania De telofonos Dominicana. The company was later bought by Verizon, Inc. Verizon provides the same Services as Codetel and extra ones like ADSL.

The second competitor is Tricom, which is a minor competitor while Verizon is the dominant service provider in the country.

The National Area Code is +1-809. In 2005 a new area Code was made as an overlay of +1-809 due to population growth. +1-829 is the new area code for the nation due to the increase of fax, internet, mobile, and ground lines created in the last decade. The Dominican Republic uses +1-809-XXX-XXXX and +1-829-XXX-XXXX as the official format for telephone numbers.

Internet Information
.do is the internet code for The Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has an estimated 400,000 internet users.

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