US EditionCuban Students Call Boycott over Mobile Tariff Hikes
- Cuban students are protesting against recent increases in internet data prices, saying concessions made by the state telecom firm Etecsa are insufficient.
- Students at the University of Havana are calling for class boycotts, insisting on reasonable pricing for their academic needs in the face of inflation.
- Cubans claim the tariff hikes on May 30 by Etecsa will leave them with only a few gigabytes of data per month due to prohibitively expensive additional purchases.
- President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated the government is considering 'options' for vulnerable sectors, including students.
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An increase in mobile Internet access rates in Cuba by the state telecommunications company sparked an unusual protest among university students that was growing this week and involves a traditionally government-friendly sector.
By Ivonne Valdés, CNN en Español Student groups at the University of Havana demanded on Wednesday that the recent price increases for internet data packages be reversed. This isn't a massive protest or banners being held high, but rather a growing voice of discontent in the hallways, gaining strength to demand a more beneficial discount than the one offered on Monday by the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA), which promised a partial redu…
By Ivonne Valdés, CNN en Español Student groups at the University of Havana demanded on Wednesday that the recent price increases for internet data packages be reversed. This isn't a massive protest or banners being held high, but rather a growing voice of discontent in the hallways, gaining strength to demand a more beneficial discount than the one offered on Monday by the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA), which promised a partial redu…
The internet access rates on the island have jumped, while the limited connection available is already very limited. Student circles called for the strike, they who had precisely used social networks to mobilize in 2021.
The Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa) has announced a package of measures that drastically limits access to the Internet and reinforces the dependence on payments in US dollars, mainly through remittances from abroad. The 'tarifazo' has provoked widespread indignation among the Cuban population. One of the sectors that have expressed the most rejection to the measure has been the university students. Several faculties of the universities…
The discontent in Cuba has taken a new form this week when the university classrooms have taken up the protests with the call for a strike. Tired of the rise in prices for Internet services announced by the government a few days ago — and tired of seeing the state suffocating them — at least ten faculties from five universities in the country called the “general stop” for ETECSA, the company with the monopoly of communications, to reverse the me…
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