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FROM
CUBA
Cellular phones in Cuba to become available
with monthly payments in pesos
HAVANA, March 24 (Ernesto Roque, www.cubanet.org)
- The Cuban Telephone Company plans to offer
cellular telephone service later this year
with payments made in pesos rather than
dollars, as has been the policy to date,
according to well-informed sources.
For a monthly payment of 50 pesos - slightly
less than US$2 - subscribers will be able
to make up to 200 minutes of local calls.
Priority will be given to workers in the
Education and Public Health ministries.
Communications minister Ignacio Rodríguez
has said there are 6.37 telephones for every
100 residents and he hopes to increase the
figure to 20. currently there are parts
of Cuba with no telephone service.
The telephone company is jointly owned
with Italian investors.
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