Dominican Republic
Press Release

Indotel will launch a plan against visual contamination due to cabling in the National District

Bnamericas

by Indotel

August 28, 2023

This is an automated translation of the press release issued in Spanish

Santo Domingo. – The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) announced the implementation of the Plan Against Visual Contamination by Cables of the City of Santo Domingo, National District, which will entail the execution of joint actions for the removal of cables owned by telecommunication companies that are making use of the public domain, that is, poles, in inappropriate conditions.

In turn, it called on public telecommunications service concessionaires or companies that own cables that are making unauthorized use of posts owned by the Dominican Republic Electricity Distribution Company, SA, (EDESUR) and the Electricity Distribution Company of the Este, SA, (EDEESTE) to contact these institutions by emails: egarciag@edesur.com.do and pfeliz@edeeste.com no later than Friday, September 1, 2023. do .

Likewise, the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewerage Corporation (CAASD), the National Directorate of Transit and Land Transportation (INTRANT), the General Directorate of Traffic Safety and Land Transportation (DIGESETT) and the provider companies are participating in the actions. of telecommunications services, which will work in coordination with Indotel and the National District City Council, so that they can effectively develop this important project, which is in the interest of the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader.

This is part of the work being carried out by the aforementioned entities to achieve the visual decontamination of the city, which will continue to monitor through technical tables.

Previously, these institutions had held meetings to coordinate work and reduce visual contamination and condition the disused aerial wiring of telecommunications services in the Central Polígono of the National District.

This intervention would cover an area of 4.34 square kilometers in its first phase, included between the avenues John F Kennedy, Winston Churchill, 27 de Febrero and Ortega y Gasset.

The service providers had already launched a pilot plan in the Serallés sector, National District, as a model to extend to other parts of the city, which is also planned to be carried out throughout the country in the future.

The meeting was headed by the president of Indotel, Nelson Arroyo; the directors of Edesur, Milton Morrison; Edenorte, Andrés Cueto; Edeeste, Andrés Julio Portes. Also present were the executive director of Indotel, Julissa Cruz, representatives of the National District Mayor's Office, the National System of Attention to Emergencies and Security 9-1-1, companies from the telecommunications sector and the cable television system.

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