Cuba to expand cellular network?
By Dusan Belic on Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 9:35 AM PST In General
With Fidel leaving the office, his brother Raul seems set to modernize the communist country, at least a bit. Apparently, he is easing restrictions on the sale of DVD players and computers in Cuba. According to The Inquirer, the obvious next move is to open up its cellular networks to the local people.
Cuba has a population of about 11 million, but only 0.2% have access to the mobile network, with most of theme being the government officials. Will Raul open-up the network, or (arguably even better) allow building of a new infrastructure? It’s hard to say at this stage, but an additional income which would come from selling the licence would certainly be beneficial for the economy. Plus, let’s not forget all the people who would also benefit from the mobile technology. We’ll see where this goes…
[Via: textually.org, photo from La Habana Vieja]
Raul is his brother, not his son.
Not DVD’s… DVD players…grant you that it will (should) also include DVDs as well. With most of the population struggling to feed themselves… it may take a while before having a cell phone becomes de riguer.
Too many mistakes for such a short article. Please fix. This is a news site.
Thanks.
Fixed, but if you look the original article from The Inquirer you’ll see they use “DVDs” and not “DVD players.” It’s kinda obvious what the author wanted to say.
And I can’t believe I wrote it’s his son. Sorry about that.