Indotel will install within sixty days free Wi-Fi Internet service in Sosua

The president of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel), announced here the installation of a modern Wi-Fi network that will provide free Internet service to the residents of this tourist area north of the country. Dr. Jose Rafael Vargas made the announcement to leave this county opened in modern courtroom knowledge of 15 computers in the public library Paul Harris, with the backing of the city counsel and the local Rotary Club and community entities.

"We have assumed the commitment to establish a Wi-Fi network in the community of Sosua," said the official, adding also that "this implies free Internet for all".

He explained that through this network a person or young students Sosúa may connect to the network from their schools, in parks and in their homes, that is, one kilometer to the round of the place where the installed base operations.

Vargas sought collaboration with the cable television company to install there Atlantic link to the Internet, so that they can more easily provide the Wi-Fi service system of Sosua, which he said will be called "Sosua Wi-Fi, for free internet all ".

Immediately instructed the manager of the Development Fund for Telecommunications (FDT-INDOTEL), engineer Oscar Melgen, to commence work so that this wireless network is opened within sixty days. "What we do is comply with a mandate , a dream and a desire of President Leonel Fernandez, he said that wherever there are young people who want to live the experience and challenges of the 21st century, there has to be communication and first-generation technology, "emphasized Dr. Vargas. He said that this initiative of the agent is required especially when it comes to a community as Sosua is contributing both to the country's development, not only for tourism but also for the quality of its inhabitants.

Vargas called to open a space for the imagination in Sosua, giving room for young people to begin to rejuvenate this important pole of development which is creating new brains to support the social and economic progress of the Dominican Republic, "Forever Young slope of what the president Leonel Fernandez only education saves the Dominican Republic."

The hall of knowledge opened here in Sosua has 15 computers with Internet access broadband laser printer, wireless switch, fans, investor and furniture. They have installed the Windows XP operating system-2000, Ms Office 2003, the Encarta encyclopedia, the book "How is studied" George Fillmore Swain and a link to the virtual library of the Franklin Center of the Embassy of the United States and Wikipedia.

Dr. Vargas opened five centers for training in information technology (ITC) and digital rooms during a tour conducted by the community of Los Hidalgos, the tourist town of Puerto Plata and township Sosúa. Referred he had received the information from Omar Ramirez the official presenter of President Fernandez, and the liquidator that local Sosua faced communication problems, specifically to communicate over the Internet and sometimes phone.

He said that these figures you mentioned the beautiful work he had done in Los Indotel: Monte Plata, Hato Damas, San Cristobal, a town that never had phones and broadband Internet, but which is now the press to residents of those communities talking on the phone and boys using the Internet. Vargas meant that this work is being carried out in Postrer and Mella, the province of Independencia, in Jimaní, El Limon, River Clean Hondo Valley, Pedro Santana, Bánica of Elias Pina and many other poor communities, but that did not fall in Sosua the project because it is a rich community, which abounds in all, with amber mine, beaches, etc..

"I explained to Vladimir (receiver) that Indotel it makes it difficult to install in Sosua a project of this nature because it is for depressed communities, where companies providing not because they understand that there are no markets, but said quite rightly that here tourists who come have to be connected, they must be reported, "said the official, in a row, added:" So I want to announce here today, and I know that this is a story that especially young people, and for which you want to be well informed is of enormous significance, we assume a commitment from this afternoon to set up a Wi-Fi network in the community of Sosua.

" At the opening of ITC Sosúa was present, the trustee Vladimir Cespedes, the president of the chapter house, Miguel Barrientos, president of the Rotary Club, Ricardo Straus, the director of the school district 11-01, Teofilo, the employer Yovani Delance, Ceballos and the vicesíndica Lían Father Bernardo Vasquez, among others.

During the activity, Dr. Vargas took the swearing in a group of citizens who took the responsibility to give sustainability to the computer centre, and then proceeded to the signing of the agreement and the ribbon-cutting.