NEW INTERNET SERVICE. A new service seeks to expand popular online
services to low-income mobile subscribers in the DR, reports DR1 Daily
News (May 28, 2012). Mobile network operator Viva, is offering the new
service, called vSocial, to its 700,000 subscribers. The service enables
regular handsets to use 'internet-free apps' to send and
receive Internet messaging on any GSM phone with SMS, said Jose Holguin,
manager for value added services with Viva. Only 40% of the DR's 10
million inhabitants have access to the Internet, of which 2.2 million
are on Facebook. The VIVA service now makes it possible to triple that
figure, using the ForgetMeNot software that can transform even the most
basic mobile handset into a virtual smartphone.
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