The objectives of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications, INDOTEL) are:
- Promote the development of telecommunications, implementing the principle of Universal Service defined by the General Telecommunications Law 153-98.
- Ensure sustainable, fair and effective competition in the provision of public telecommunications services.
- Defend and enforce the rights of customers, users and providers of telecommunications services, issuing the relevant regulations, enforcing the obligations corresponding to the parties and, where appropriate, sanctioning those who do not comply with them, in accordance with the provisions contained in the Law and its regulations.
- Ensure the efficient use of the public domain of the radio spectrum in the Dominican Republic.

