The Cuban Telecommunications Company, SA (ETECSA) has announced the new tariffs that fixed telephony will have on the island after the start of the so-called ordinance task, so that the monthly residential tax will increase from 6.25 Cuban pesos (CUP) at 20.00 CUP.
But this fee will only cover the first 300 minutes of local calls, after which the new rate will apply, which amounts to 0.09 CUP per minute for local calls between 6:00 and 17:59 and at 0:06 CUP per minute when the service is used between 18:00 and 05:59.
For regional calls, the cost is 0.75 CUP per minute between 6:00 AM and 5:59 PM and 0.39 CUP per minute between 6:00 PM and 5:59 AM.
For interregional calls, as ETECSA divides the island into the western, central and eastern areas, a price of 1.95 CUP per minute was established during the day and 0.99 CUP per minute during the night.
Local calls by public telephone and mobile networks will cost CUP 0.10 for every three minutes. If they are long distance, their price will increase to CUP 0.40 per minute during the day and CUP 0.20 per minute at night.
The cost of interregional public telephone calls was set at 1.00 CUP per minute during the day and 0.50 CUP per minute at night.
ETECSA also reported that the extensions will be priced at CUP 8.00 per month and the identifier CUP 15.00. The transfer and electronic blocking services will be priced at 3.00 CUP, and the value of three-way calls and direct lines will be 4.50 CUP.
The Cuban communications monopoly has reminded that these tariffs will start to be applied this January, but will not be charged until February, because this month the December bill will be charged with the old prices.
Another entity that announced the increase in their prices was the Young Computer and Electronics Club (JCCE), where the commercial offer for national navigation and e-mail consisting of a rate of 3.00 CUP / hour for people naturally and will be valid six months, from January 1 to June 30, 2021 “, explained Yadanis Rodríguez Badillo, communication specialist at the Provincial Directorate of the JCCE in Ciego de Ávila.
Starting with July of this year, the price will increase to 5.00 CUP per hour. In addition, CUP 10.00 per hour will be charged for computer rental advice to individuals and CUP 50.00 for computer assistance.
Darisleixy Garrachana Rodríguez, JCCE’s deputy director of institutional communications, added that “the WI-FI networks of people connected to private data networks have not been charged”, but “now their cost is set at 20.00 CUP per month”.
Following the implementation of the so-called ordinance task, many Cubans have complained about excessive price increases, for which the Government has slightly reduced the cost in some of its initial proposals, such as the Coppelia ice cream and the electricity tariff. which for many is part of a strategy to alleviate population dissatisfaction.