Cuba finally rolls out mobile 3G, though too costly for most

A woman uses her mobile phone to connect to internet through WiFi in Havana, on December 5, 2018. - Cubans will have the chance to have internet in their mobile phones since Thursday, but at high rates. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

HAVANA: Cuba became one of the last countries in the world to get 3G mobile Internet services on Dec 6, though most citizens on the communist-run island won’t be able to afford it. 

Cuba’s Internet provider Etecsa rolled out its 3G service from 8am to answer pent-up demand, though initially only for clients with numbers beginning with a 52 or 53 prefix.