ETECSA

ETECSA

Infobox Company
name = Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A.

type = Government owned
genre = Communications
foundation = Havana, CUB
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area_served = Nationwide
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industry = Telecommunications
products = Telephones, cellphones, internet
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homepage = [http://www.etecsa.cu/ etecsa.cu]
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Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A., known as (ETECSA) is the government owned full telecommunications service provider for the island of Cuba. The company is 27% owned by Telecom Italia with the remainder owned by the Ministry of Information and Communication. The services provided by ETECSA includes telephone, internet and wireless services. The company provides services to the public of Cuba, as well as the millions of tourists who vacation in the Republic of Cuba.

On 25 September 2006, it was announced that the president, José Antonio Fernández, and the vice minister for information, Nelson Ferrer, had been fired by the new Minister Ramiro Valdés for failing to control the company. [http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-09-25T181627Z_01_N25288797_RTRIDST_0_CUBA-FIRINGS.XML&pageNumber=0&imageid=&c
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Cuba announced on March 28 2008 that it will allow Cubans the unrestricted use of mobile telephones for the first time. Cuba has the lowest rate of cellular telephone use in Latin America with the service been mainly restricted until now to foreigners and government officials.

Mobile telephone systems

The first mobile telephone system was Cubacel, using AMPS and later D-AMPS. The company was a joint venture with Sherritt International and one mexican.

Later, a second system, C-com, was set up using GSM.

In 2005, the Cuban government bought Sherritt out and merged Cubacel and C-com into a division of Etecsa. The two names continue as brands.

External links

* [http://www.etecsa.cu/ ETECSA - ETECSA Homepage]
* [http://www.enet.cu/ E-net - ETECSA Web Portal]


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