Editing Dominican Republic (section)

===Communications===
{{Main|Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic}}
The Dominican Republic has a well developed [[Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic|telecommunications]] infrastructure, with extensive mobile phone and [[landline]] services. [[Cable Internet access|Cable Internet]] and [[Digital subscriber line|DSL]] are available in most parts of the country, and many [[Internet service provider]]s offer [[3G]] wireless internet service. Projects to extend [[Wi-Fi]] hot spots have been made in Santo Domingo.

The telecommunications regulator in the country is INDOTEL (''Instituto Dominicano de Telecomunicaciones''). The largest telecommunications company is [[Claro República Dominicana|Claro]]&nbsp;– part of [[Carlos Slim]]'s [[América Móvil]]&nbsp;– which provides wireless, landline, broadband, and [[IPTV]] services. In June 2009 there were more than 8 million phone line subscribers (land and cell users) in the D.R., representing 81% of the country's population and a fivefold increase since the year 2000, when there were 1.6 million. The communications sector generates about 3.0% of the GDP.<ref name="LD2009-06-05" /> There were 2,439,997 Internet users in March 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indotel.gob.do/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,110/Itemid,757 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226134642/http://www.indotel.gob.do/component/option%2Ccom_docman/task%2Ccat_view/gid%2C110/Itemid%2C757 |archive-date=February 26, 2011 |title=Indicadores Telefonicos 2009 |access-date=June 5, 2009 |work=Indotel |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In November 2009, the Dominican Republic became the first Latin American country to pledge to include a "gender perspective" in every information and communications technology (ICT) initiative and policy developed by the government.<ref>[http://elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=175919 Indotel garantiza igualdad de género en proyectos tecnológicos realiza en todo el país] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110503184609/http://elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=175919 |date=May 3, 2011 }}. elnuevodiario.com.do. November 16, 2009</ref> This is part of the regional [[eLAC Action Plans|eLAC2010]] plan. The tool the Dominicans have chosen to design and evaluate all the public policies is the APC [[Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM)]].