Cuban cell phone use has skyrocketed, Reuters reports. There were 330,000 mobile phones on the island in 2008, when their use was first legalized by Raúl Castro. Now the figure has hit one million. Marc Frank writes: “Cuba has a similar number of fixed telephone lines. In a country of 11.2 million inhabitants, the country has a total telephone density of just under 20 percent, the lowest in Latin America, according to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union.” Internet use has also increased, though less dramatically.">Cuban cell phone use has skyrocketed, Reuters reports. There were 330,000 mobile phones on the island in 2008, when their use was first legalized by Raúl Castro. Now the figure has hit one million. Marc Frank writes: “Cuba has a similar number of fixed telephone lines. In a country of 11.2 million inhabitants, the country has a total telephone density of just under 20 percent, the lowest in Latin America, according to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union.” Internet use has also increased, though less dramatically.">

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Cuban cell phone use has skyrocketed, Reuters reports. There were 330,000 mobile phones on the island in 2008, when their use was first legalized by Raúl Castro. Now the figure has hit one million. Marc Frank writes: “Cuba has a similar number of fixed telephone lines. In a country of 11.2 million inhabitants, the country has a total telephone density of just under 20 percent, the lowest in Latin America, according to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union.” Internet use has also increased, though less dramatically.

Source:http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2011/07/

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