Cuban students seek concessions as frustration grows over internet rate hikes


FILE PHOTO: People pass by an office of state-run telecommunications company ETECSA in Havana, Cuba June 3, 2025. REUTERS/Norlys Perez/File Photo

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban students clamored on Wednesday for further concessions to roll back a rate hike on internet data, saying a decision on Monday to offer them discounted access did not go far enough.

Students of at least one department at the University of Havana, the country's largest, called on their peers to skip classes in protest of the price hikes, which have been rebuked across the Caribbean island nation.

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