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| Cuba calling: Cellular accounts up 60 percent
Source: Associated Press
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09 Feb 2009 |
Cuba calling: Cellular accounts up 60 percent
Associated Press
HAVANA -- Cuba's teleco said Sunday that cell phone accounts have risen 60 percent to nearly a half-million since the government made private service available to ordinary islanders last year.
Once restricted to foreigners and Cubans with key state jobs, cell phones have been available to all Cubans since April, when President Raul Castro's government lifted the ban.
The communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported in its Sunday edition that some 480,000 cellular lines are now in use, compared with 300,000 before the change.
The government recently lowered the activation charge to about $65 from $120.
The government also has increasingly assigned cellular phones at highly subsidized prices to homes unable to receive regular phone service because of a deficit of lines.
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