Editing Telecommunications in Cuba (section)

==Telephone==
[[File:Red Telefonica De La Habana 1895.jpg|thumb|An 1895 map of the first telephone network in Havana, Cuba on display in the ETECSA Telephone Museum.]]
{{See also |Telephone numbers in Cuba}}

'''Country code:''' +53

'''International call prefix:''' 00

(https://it.granma.cu/cuba/2019-04-26/etecsa-installera-il-codice-daccesso-00)

'''Telephones – main lines in use:'''
1.2 million, 72nd in the world, less than 10 per 100 inhabitants (2009).

'''Telephones – mobile cellular:''' One million mobile phones at the end of 2010 (9 per 100 inhabitants), up from 621,000 in 2009 and 330,000 in 2008, when all Cubans were allowed to buy and use them for the first time. Mobile-cellular telephone service is expensive, which limits subscribership.<ref name=Reuters-7July2011>{{cite news |author1=Marc Frank |author2=Kevin Gray |author3=Eric Walsh  |name-list-style=amp |title=Cuban cellphones hit 1 million, Net access lags |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-telecom-idUSTRE76661920110707 |work=Reuters|date=7 July 2011 |access-date=6 November 2011}}</ref><ref name=WFB-Cuba/> By the end of 2020, Etecsa announced that they had 6.661 million mobile telephone users of whom 4.421 million had Internet.<ref>{{cite web | url-access=limited  |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/747121515353787/3878929848839589 |archive-date = 2022-04-30| url = https://www.facebook.com/etecsa.cu/photos/a.749301345135804/3878929848839589/ |title = ETECSA_Cuba on Facebook  |website=[[Facebook]]}}{{cbignore}}{{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref>

'''Telephone system:'''
95% of telephone switches were digitized by end of 2006.<ref name=WFB-Cuba>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cuba/ "Country report: Cuba"], World Factbook, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 27 September 2011</ref> The principal trunk system is coaxial cable; fiber-optic distribution is used in Havana and on [[Isla de la Juventud]]; two microwave radio relay installations (one is old, US-built; the other newer, Soviet-built); both analog and digital mobile cellular service established; one international satellite earth station, [[Intersputnik]] (Atlantic Ocean region).

'''New fiber-optic link:'''
A new undersea [[fiber-optic]] link with [[Venezuela]] was scheduled for 2011.<ref>{{citation | title=Undersea cable to bring fast internet to Cuba | publisher=The Telegraph (UK)| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/cuba/8277772/Undersea-cable-to-bring-fast-internet-to-Cuba.html |date=24 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{citation | title= Fiber-Optic Communications Cable Arrives In Cuba |author=Andrea Rodriguez |publisher=Huffington Post| url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/09/cuba-internet-fiber-optic-communication-cable_n_820864.html |date=9 February 2011}}</ref> In May 2012 there were reports that the cable was operational, but with use restricted to Cuban and Venezuelan government entities. Internet access by the general public still used the slower and more expensive satellite links,<ref>[http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/25/2817534/fiber-optic-cable-benefiting-only.html "Fiber-optic cable benefiting only Cuban government"], ''Miami Herald'', 25 May 2012</ref> until January 2013 when Internet speeds increased.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cuba's mystery fiber-optic Internet cable stirs to life |author=Marc Frank |location=Havana |url=http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE90L13020130122?irpc=932 |work=Reuters |date=22 January 2013 |access-date=26 January 2013}}</ref>