Etecsa announces service affections this end of year

| 28/12/2020 – 19:01 (GMT-4)

The Cuba Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) informs you that its services have been affected since the end of the monetary union recently announced by the Cuban government.

“ETECSA informs affectations in the operation of the services, the commercial network and Transfermóvil during the final and initial days of the year, through configuration works in the systems for adapting to the new tariffs”, published the monopoly of Cuban communications in Facebook official page.

In the same publication you can see various graphic images that describe the effects. On Wednesday, December 30th, from 18:00, the Transfermóvil electronic payment platform will be disabled.

On the 30th and 31st of December the commercial offices of the working company will be open during limited hours, until 16:30 the first day and until 12:30 pm on the second. Slides 1,2 and 3 of the year on the commercial red do not open to the public, until the 4th of January is restored to its habitual schedule.

Debate on the configuration of new tariffs, this first year will be suspended during one hour (from 5:00 am to 6:00 am) mobile phone services (Voice and text messages), downloads, and internet in points of Wifi and Nauta Hogar. Mientras que las tarjetas Propia se quedarán sin servicio de 5:00 am a 9:00 pm.

Determines the effects of navigation services on mobile data packets, mobile telephony and emergency calls from mobile phones (104 ambulances, 105 bombers, 106 police).

In addition, from the first of 2121, all the pages that ETECSA will receive in its commercial offices will be in Cuban pounds (CUP).

This latest information, announced by ETECSA last December 24, results – controversial for various users of Facebook, since the company continues to sell electronic equipment such as cellular or inline dollar phones

“Everything is clear. The only thing he does not understand is that if the tunes are from a follow-up cuc and give vuelto in MN ¿why did you not want to make? Y …. Are there any people who, by absolute necessity, need a telephone and cellular ¿For what purpose do they sell in cuc y / o moneda nionional? What a service, by God! ”, Dijo el usuario Frank Gómez Cañibano.

The company responded that it did not know “contemplated in the authorizations for the CUC collection” that the Cuban state had for 6 additional months, after which the first monetary union was being carried out. ETECSA’s response solely shifts the responsibility of the Icelandic government, and demonstrates its dependence and subordination to it.

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