The Cuban telecom services market, measured by revenues derived from voice, data, and video services, grew 10% in 2014 to $918 million, slightly slower than the average annual growth rate of 12% during the preceding four years. The industry is tightly controlled by the government, with ETECSA operating as the monopoly provider in both the … Read more
by Cuba Journal staff The Cuban government has launched a search engine for websites it has indexed on the .cu domain extension. (Two letter country codes are assigned by ICAAN to virtually every sovereign nation in the world). Called “Unified Contents for an Advanced Search” (“Contenidos Unificados para Búsqueda Avanzada, or “CUBA”), the search engine … Read more
By the Cuba Journal staff New Jersey-based IDT has become the first US telecommunications company to negotiate a deal that will allow international phone calls between Cuba and the US. According to the Miami Herald, IDT reached an agreement with ETECSA, Cuba’s telecommunications company, on Wednesday. “This is an important first step in the liberalization … Read more
