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Communications in Cuba




The wire net
Cuba tells on just modernized network of digital telephony that covers all the country and despite which the fixed line number as much as movable is still enough low, the certain thing is that from any tourist destiny or city one it is possible to be communicated with any other place in the island or abroad.

In order to make calls within the national territory the public cabins can be used that accept currencies or cards paid in national currency and that are distributed by the cities and towns, single is enough to exchange to some dollar in Cubano Pesos () and making the call from money can here be saved since they are very economic. Also it is possible to be called from the telephone centers and if the call is national it of course receives in national currency and from nobody telefóno prevailed like anywhere of the world.

In order to call to the foreigner it is necessary to use public cabins that accept cards paid in American dollars, these cabins are in telephone hotels, airports, centers, etc. Also the calls to the foreigner can be done from the hotels (rooms or asking for it in the folder) and from telephone centers that exist in all the cities and tourist destinies, or from a cellular telephone.

In order to call to Cuba
In order to call to Cuba from any country by means of the teleselección, it must mark:

1. Code of Cuba: 53
3. Code of the area or locality
4. Wished number

Example: In order to call from Italy to Varadero, in Matanzas, it must mark:
00 area code of international exit in Italy
53 code of Cuba
5 code of the area
and the wished number
00 53 5 + wished number

Cellular telephony
In Cuba 2 companies exist that offer the service of cellular telephony a cover that although does not cover all the national territory if it includes all the main cities and tourist destinies of the country. One of these companies uses norm GSM and united to the agreements of roaming international that both have with international partners it is possible to use in Cuba cellular telephones of almost any part of Europe, America and part of Asia. In addition, it is possible to buy or to rent an apparatus at the time of contracting the services of nobodies of the 2 companies. Next the technical details and areas of cover of Cubacel and C-Com, the companies of cellular offer.

1. Cubacel
2. C-com

All the cities, and nonsingle in Havana, exists telephones hung public of blue color in the facades of the houses. From these you can call to your country of origin by means of the phonecard use of 10 dollars that will give the possibility of speaking about three minutes you with any country European, or carry out calls within the Island. The prices in minute of the international calls with these cards prepayment oscillate between the 2 dollars for the United States and the 4 dollars for the European countries. The quality of the service is not comparable to the one of a western country, although day to day is improving. The Cubans within the country use telephones public who are in metal houses with the apparatuses on a counter. In this case it is paid in national currency and before the establishment sometimes waiting lines form, because to the Cuban it likes to maintain long conversations telephone, is a "national sport" that leaves to them cheap.




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