Compilation of ICT related statistics of Dominican Republic: - Telecommunications: fixed lines, IP lines , wireless, Paid TV, Internet. - Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook.

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2. TELECOMMUNICATIONS
STATS

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Source: World Economic Forum
Network Readiness Index
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The NRI measures the propensity for countries to exploit the
opportunities offered by information and communications technology.

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Source: The Network Readiness Index 2013
Network Readiness Index 2013
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Evolution of Dominican Republic in the NRI ranking
DR is ranked #90 of 144 countries.
Losing 43 positions since the ranking was launched in 2003.

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Source: Indotel.gob.do - June 2013
Telecommunications stats in DR
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 Resolution 141-10: Indotel only provides number of accounts.
 The National Statistics Office (ONE) will provide the number of
Internet users, but there is not updated data available.
 Accounts (June 2013): 2,379,784
 Percentage of mobile Internet accounts: 72%
 Percentage of residential accounts: 93%
Source for Internet accounts: Indotel.gob.do
Internet in DR
Estimation of Internet users (2013): 4.8 million
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Source: One.gob.do – Enhogar 2005, 2007, 2011
ICT in households (%)
Big growth of mobile phones and computers.
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Source: One.gob.do – Enhogar 2005, 2007, 2011
Internet and computers usage (%)
50.9% of computer users are women.
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Source: Statcounter.com
Top mobile vendors in DR -Evolution
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Share: Apple 27.22%, Samsung 20.34%, BlackBerry 17.46%

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Source: Statcounter.com
Top Mobile OS in DR - Evolution
Share: Android 42.47%, iOS 27.34%, BlackBerry 17.45%
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Source: Alexa.com – August 2013
Top 10 General Top 10 Local
Most visited Websites in DR
General Top 10 sites are the same as one year ago.
7 of the Top 10 locals are news sites.
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12. SOCIAL NETWORKS STATS

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Twitter stats in DR – August 2013
 Dominican Republic is number 44 in the world with 0.08% of
the tweets per day.
 Tweets per day*: 320,000
 Active users*: 380,000
 Total users*: 1,000,000
Source of 0.08%: A World of Tweets, * Using our estimation
Twitter doesn’t provide any statistics for DR,
use this numbers at your own discretion.
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Facebook stats in DR – August 2013
Source: Facebook
 Average friends per user: 226
 Average likes to a fanpage per user: 10
 Average age of the users: 27 years
 Main interface to access FB: Web
Dominican usage statistics in the last 30 days
 Photos: 38.7 million
 Messages: 754.1 million
 Status: 14.4 million
 Wallpost: 6.9 million
 Comments: 80.6 million
 Likes: 310.7 million
 Videos: 98.8 K
 Check-ins: 59.4 K
3.2 million Facebook users in DR
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