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Recently, Cuba’s only telephone company reported that 7,400 new mobile phone accounts have been contracted in the 10 days since all Cubans were allowed to sign up for the service.
Previously, mobile phones were offered only to foreigners or Cubans in top government positions or jobs with foreigners. However, that haven’t stopped many clever Cubans to get mobile phones through contracts foreigners opened for them.
According to the Cuban phone company official Maximo Lafuente Vazquez, about 300,000 lines already existed on the island before April 14, when President Raul Castro’s new government lifted the restriction on service.
Pricing remains the problem, though. A mobile phone contract costs about $120 to activate, which is about half a year’s wages on the average state salary.
[Via: Yahoo, image from mbayley.ca]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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