The Telecommunications Company of Cuba S.A. (Etecsa) has maintained improvements in its services in this eastern Cuban province while physical distancing measures are in place to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, while facing campaigns against it promoted by the extreme right of Cuban origin settled in the United States.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- So far in 2020, the company installed 900 landline telephone lines in this eastern Cuban province and, before the end of the year, another thousand will be operational, the engineer Nelson Reyes, director of the Territorial division, reported.
The permanence of more people in their homes in compliance with the isolation measures against SARS-CoV-2 increased here by 30 percent the traffic on the cell phone network. To this, the entity responded by increasing the capacities in the mobile network and installing new radio bases in rural areas, specifically in the south of the “Jesús Menéndez” municipality. In addition, coverage in areas near the town of Omaja, municipality of Majibacoa, improved.
Today in Las Tunas, more than 80 percent of its population has at least one way to access the Internet: either from their cell phones, navigation rooms or Wifi areas; as well as from their work or study centers. On the latter, commented the manager, they continue optimizing the quality of access from state institutions by increasing bandwidth and mounting more than 30 kilometers of fiber optic. Thus, for example, already 167 medical offices, 80 banks and the 101 Young Computer Club of the territory have access to the so-called network of networks.
During these months of hard struggle against the COVID-19, the digital payment channels for the services that Etecsa offers have proven their worth. “Although it existed, at the moment you see greater acceptance; but we should achieve more culture of the population in this matter,” commented Nelson Reyes. These are the measures that, he stressed, "we must maintain;" as also, he concluded, the “sanitation to enter our centers, as well as the commercial centers of any institution”.
In recent days, Cuban Internet users mobilized to face the discrediting campaigns against Etecsa promoted by sectors of the Cuban-American extreme right, who in their scathing criticism against the Cuban telephone company, ignore the damage that the U.S. blockade causes to the telecommunications in this Archipelago.
