Cuba says flaw in cellular network affecting some voice, data services
By Dave Sherwood
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's telecoms company ETECSA said on Wednesday that a flaw in its cellular network was affecting voice and cell data service in some areas, though the extent of the outage remained unclear.
The state-run company said on social media it was working to diagnose the problem but did not give an estimate for when service would be restored.
The outage comes as Cuba suffers daily rolling blackouts that have brought the Communist-run nation's economy to a near standstill. Dire shortages of food, fuel and medicine have also complicated life on the island, prompting a record-breaking exodus to the United States since 2020.
The blackouts, which often contribute to poor cellphone service for hours each day, made it difficult to immediately gauge the extent of the cellular outages on Wednesday.
But several provinces, including the capital Havana, reported service issues in recent hours.
The Communist Party newspaper Giron, in Matanzas province east of Havana, reported issues with cellular and data coverage on Tuesday following a problem at a local power generation plant.
It was unclear if that smaller outage was linked to the broader outages reported on Wednesday.
Reuters confirmed with more than a dozen people across Havana that cellphone service was limited or unavailable across several neighborhoods of the capital.
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