Its data showed that ETECSA began blocking WhatsApp on Sunday night, then Signal and Telegram on Monday. All three were still blocked on Tuesday, Filastò said.

ETECSA had previously earned millions of dollars through international mobile recharges sent by relatives abroad. These recharges included promotional packages with mobile data, prepaid credit and ...

But critics of the company have wondered what ETECSA, which is partly owned by Cuba’s military, has done with the millions of dollars it racked up by selling top-up data packages to Cuban exiles ...

This ETECSA announcement, though, is not an isolated incident; it underscores the immense strain under which Cuba attempts to meet the basic needs of its people under the US blockade.

State-run telecommunications firm ETECSA last week capped subsidized data plans - offered at a steeply discounted rate of 360 pesos (just under $1 on the informal market exchange) - at 6 gigabytes ...

Cuba's state-run telecommunications company ETECSA announced Cubans will have internet access on their cell phones starting Thursday, a milestone in one of the Western Hemisphere's least connected ...

Etecsa on Friday capped subsidized mobile data plans - offered for a steeply discounted rate of 360 pesos (less than $1 on the informal market exchange) - at six gigabytes, well shy of Cuba's ...

Etecsa charges 1 CUC (about $1) per hour of internet consumption. In a country where the average income is 30 CUC per month, that’s expensive and inconvenient—which means consumers are open to ...

Google plans to bring fast internet to Cuba. On Thursday, Google signed a deal with Cuban telecoms giant ETECSA with the intention of improving internet connectivity for the island nation, which ...

An economist, human rights activist and independent journalist from Santiago de Cuba who requested anonymity due to past government reprisals, called ETECSA's price hikes "a clear and direct form ...

Etecsa on Friday capped subsidized mobile data plans - offered for a steeply discounted rate of 360 pesos (less than $1 on the informal market exchange) - at six gigabytes, well shy of Cuba's ...