Thursday, June 12th, 2008...12:50 am - Rachael Hainsworth

Cuban’s race to buy mobile phones - at a price

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Cast back to the recent Eye in the Sky post about Cubans being allowed personal mobile phones for the first time history.  

Ten days after the March release date, the state’s official mobile phone company ETECSA registered 7,400 new phones on the network. Staggering, considering a typical mobile phone contract costs about $120 to activate, which is half a year’s wages on the average state salary.

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