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Flood Of Cell Phone Accounts Open In Cuba

There Have Been 7,400 New Cellular Accounts In 10 days

HAVANA (AP) ― Cuba's telephone monopoly says 7,400 new cell phone accounts have been contracted in the 10 days since all Cubans were allowed to sign up for service.

Previously, cellular phones were offered only to foreigners or Cubans in top government positions or jobs with foreigners. But many other Cubans already had cell phones through contracts foreigners opened for them.

ETECSA phone company official Maximo Lafuente Vazquez says about 300,000 cellular lines already existed on the island before April 14, when Cuban leader Raul Castro's new government lifted the restriction on service. Lafuente's comments appeared Thursday in the Communist Youth newspaper.

A cell phone contract costs about $120 to activate, half a year's wages on the average state salary.

(© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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