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The Lama company was founded in 1929 in San Pedro de Macorís by Pedro Juan Lama, and his wife, Afife Handal, both palestinian immigrants to the Dominican Republic. It was relocated to Avenue Duarte in Santo Domingo in the 1940s.
Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.. Numerous television channels are available. Tricom, S.A, WIND Telecom, S.A., Viva (network operator), and Claro Codetel provide television services digitally, with channels from Latin America and elsewhere in the world.
A Telmex public pay phone. Telmex was founded in Mexico the January 1, 1947; 78 years ago (), when a group of Mexican investors bought Swedish Ericsson's Mexican branch. [citation needed] In 1950, the same investors bought the Mexican branch of the ITT Corporation, thus becoming the only telephone provider in the country.
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
Escudería Telmex is an auto racing team founded by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim in 2002. The program is designed to provide support for both veteran and up-and-coming Latin American drivers. The program is designed to provide support for both veteran and up-and-coming Latin American drivers.
Brigantine Schooners in Santo Domingo circa 1850. Haiti under their president Jean-Pierre Boyer had invaded and occupied Dominican Republic from 1822 to 1844. The military forces of the First Republic's army comprised about 4,000 soldiers organized into seven line infantry regiments, several loose battalions, 6 escudrones cavalry and 3 artillery brigades with 2/2 brigades; This army was ...
The national anthem of the Dominican Republic (Spanish: Himno nacional de República Dominicana), also known by its incipit Valiant Quisqueyans (Spanish: Quisqueyanos valientes), was composed by José Rufino Reyes y Siancas (1835–1905), and its lyrics were authored by Emilio Prud'Homme (1856–1932).