Radio Habana Cuba

[radiofan2023]

There's cell service in Cuba?

In Havana at least. Some of my relatives were there recently and phoned me and it sounded fine. Apparently the Cuban phone service is slightly better than the power plants, which had shutdowns every day they were there.

 

[davideduardo]

There's cell service in Cuba?

Sure there is.

In much of the less developed world, landlines never made it to the less affluent neighborhoods. Now, everyone has a cellphone. In many Subsaharan African nations the phone is also used instead of a credit card and people are even aid for day jobs from phone to phone. And the phone can be used to pay the rent, groceries, and whatever else is needed.

Before the pandemic, I was working on a project in Bolivia to tie phone-delivered "radio" formats to a network that would have offered cellular based money, driver licenses and a whole bunch of other things.

 

[Mediafrog+]

In many Subsaharan African nations the phone is also used instead of a credit card and people are even aid for day jobs from phone to phone. And the phone can be used to pay the rent, groceries, and whatever else is needed.

I’ve read that the number of smartphones in many (if not most) sub-Saharan countries far exceeds the number of radio receivers, which is one of the reasons the remaining international shortwave broadcasters have slashed SW output beamed to that continent.

 

[boombox4]

There's cell service in Cuba?

After a search on it, I guess there is cell service there. And the phones I hear on Marti reports sound like cell phones. They don't have that grainy midrange of old-school wireline phones, although I suppose they could be decent quality wireline phones.