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Cuba's Castro censors
cameraphones
By Tony Dennis, The
Inquirer, Sunday 11 January 2004.
A curious incident has been reported back
to the INQ. A British couple on a Caribbean
cruise tried to take their cameraphone ashore
when their liner docked at Havana in Cuba.
However, once the customs officials spotted
that they were carrying a cameraphone, they
were strongly advised to take the device
back to their cabin and swap it for an ordinary
(digital) camera.
Asking around afterwards, they discovered
that Castro's regime is worried that tourists
might photograph something they shouldn't
and send it back home before the regime
had the chance to censor it.
Of course, besides owning a MMS/fototext
capable handset , you'd also need access
to a GPRS network for this kind of thing
and we weren't aware that C-Com (Cuba's
mobile operator) had such a capability.
You'd also need to be able to roam onto
the Cuban network which in the case of UK
subscribers covers everyone except Vodafone's
clients. Even those on 3 can roam in Cuba.
How bizarre!
© 2004 Breakthrough
Publishing Ltd.
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