Cuba’s state-owned telecoms operator Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA) has signed up a total of 70,418 residential fixed broadband customers since the service was officially launched in March 2017. Local newspaper Granma quotes ETECSA’s president Mayra Arevich as saying that 95% of the ‘Nauta Hogar’ ADSLcustomers subscribe to the entry-level 1Mbps/256kbps download/upload package, which is priced at CUC15 (USD15) per month. The service is currently offered in 115 of the country’s 168 municipalities. According to Arevich, this year ETECSA plans to modernise 7,000 analogue fixed lines, install an additional 95,000 fixed telephony lines and roll out more than 600 new mobile base stations.
ETECSA’s new 3G mobile internet service, meanwhile, has attracted over 1.8 million users since its launch on 6 December last year. Coverage of the 3G network is across 66% of the island’s territory.