Cuba CID downgrade cellular service users looking for more accommodation
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Monday, May 23, 2011
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cut cellular service users seeking more
Last Updated n Saturday, 21 May 2011 1:36
By Wilfredo Cancio Isla
- In an aggressive strategy to increase mobile phone users
, Cuba introduced a reduction in the share activation allows purchase the service for only 30 pesos convertibles (CUC). Purchase cellular Cubacel offices in Havana.
Since last May 13, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba
(ETECSA) enacted the new fee to activate a cell phone, which keeps
additional payment of 10 CUC for the initial balance.
Until this month, the price of activating a phone line was 40 CUC.
The measure is a reduction of 63% of the trigger price on the cost
established three years ago, when the government of Raúl
Castro gave the green light for access of nationals to use cell phones
. In 2008, the hiring of a phone line
ascendíaa 111 CUC.
In a statement, ETECSA announced that the decision to downgrade the service
addresses "policy approach to the mobile population &
# 243; n ".
added information that users of prepaid service may make the change in ownership
between people, with the corresponding
line balance transferred to new owner-at no cost.
For Cubans, the company requires an initial contract
prepaid. The customer pays only using prepaid cards that can
purchased ETECSA commercial network or through direct recharge
commercial service in the mobile office or through
of the internet.
The post-paid mobile phone service only applies to
Cuban and foreign companies.
ETECSA business strategy seeks to expand the volume of users and lower costs service in a country where having a cell phone remains a luxury for the nationals. The
average salary in Cuba is 429 pesos (about $ 24), a 
income that does not even cover the initial activation fee.
"The purpose of this measure is to make the service more accessible to income that does not even cover the initial activation fee. more revenue," said the engineer Jose Remon, former
official of the Ministry of Communications. "It's still expensive as prepaid
if we consider the average income in Cuba. "
Send a text message (SMS) within the country costs 0.16 CUC, but abroad if the value is five times (1 CUC). All mobile services on the island are listed on
convertible currency, with few exceptions
state subsidy to government officials, police and people in need.
Although cell growth on the island jumped from
2008, Cuba remains the lowest mobile phone penetration in Latin America
with access to 12 percent of the population. The figure
Cellular now stands at 7 000 million, according to official data.
At the same time, Cuba is among the five countries with the lowest density of fixed line telephone
in the region. ETECSA
state has a monopoly in both fixed line service
as cell phones. Last January, the company became fully
hands of the Cuban state after acquiring the 27 percent participation
corresponding to Italian Telecom Consortium .
The Cuban government has expressed its intention to maintain state control over the telecommunications sector, considered of strategic importance to U.S. interests.
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