Full IDD available. Country code: 1 809. CODETEL, Dominican Republic’s telecommunications company, has produced the Comunicard, which enables tourists visiting the country to phone anywhere abroad from any touchtone phone. For further information, contact CODETEL, Av Tiradentes 1169, Santo Domingo (tel: 220 5168; website: www.codetel.net.do).

Roaming agreements exist with some international mobile phone companies.

There are Internet cafes in larger cities.

Ownership of TV channels, radio stations and newspapers is concentrated in a few economically or politically powerful hands. There are several terrestrial TV channels and some 30 multichannel cable TV operators. There are more than 200 radio stations, most of them commercial. There are two Government-owned stations. The media are regulated by the government and are considered to be only partially free. Although the government rarely interferes with programmes, some subjects, such as the Catholic Church and the army, are generally avoided.
Press: All daily papers are in Spanish and include El Caribe, Hoy, Listín Diario and El Nacional. The English-language Santo Domingo News is published weekly on Wednesday and may be obtained in hotels. Dominicana News, a monthly Tourism Promotion Council publication, has the main Dominicana tourism industry items.
TV: Radio Television Dominicana (Canal 4) and Rahintel (Canal 7) are state-owned channels. Other channels include: Color Vision (Canal 9), Canal 6, Telesistema (Canal 11), Teleantillas (Canal 2) and Cadena de Noticias (CDN), a news-based channel.
Radio: Cadena de Noticias (CDN) Radio is a news station; Radio Television Dominicana is Government-owned; Rumba FM is one of Santo Domingo's many merengue and salsa music stations.

Airmail takes about 10 days to reach western Europe. It is advisable to post all mail at the Central Post Office in Santo Domingo to ensure rapid handling.