Cuba Goes Crazy For Cell Phones

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M60o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr Cuba Goes Crazy For Cell Phones
Published: Tue, April 15, 2008 - 7:15 am
Last Updated: Tue, April 15, 2008 - 7:24 am
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans are lining up out the door and down the
block at phone centers in Havana as cell phone service becomes
available to all citizens for the first time.
The cell phone contracts cost about $120. That's more than six
times the average state salary and doesn't include a phone or cards
with credit to make and receive calls. Still, hundreds of Cubans
are lining up to buy the service.
Many of those who were waiting to sign up yesterday already have
cell phones but it was prohibited for most Cubans to have them in
their own names. The new government of Raul Castro is making a
series of changes in Cuba aimed at eliminating some of the more
bothersome restrictions on daily life.


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