27/02/2024

Dirty or Broken, Public Pay Phones Survive in Cuba

HAVANA TIMES – “Is Cuba ready to abandon public phones?” This is how the Inter Press Service (IPS) agency presents a note on Thursday based on data from the latest Statistical Yearbook, which indicates that although there is not cellular coverage for the entire population, there are fewer and fewer public phones. In response to the question, ’14ymedio’ took a tour of Havana in search of these beloved technological dinosaurs. / 14ymedio

At the Carlos III shopping center, a dozen public phones are crowded together. Some work and others don’t, but it’s very rare to see anyone using them. According to the Yearbook published by the National Office of Statistics and Information, in 2022 there were about 57,600 functioning devices throughout the island, compared to the 60,000 that had remained in operation between 2018 and 2021. / 14ymedio

Dirty and damaged, most of the devices languish hanging from equally dilapidated walls. IPS points out that although this type of phones has also been disappearing in other countries, they are still necessary in Cuba, as internet connectivity is only 87.5%. / 14ymedio

Before the widespread use of cell phones, especially since 2018 when mobile internet became available, public phones were the common way to communicate in a country where very few had landlines, especially in the provinces. / 14ymedio

It is striking on Infanta Street, in Central Havana, to see a device with the colors of the Spanish Telefónica company, probably donated by that country. It is ironic, as the first telephone conv

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