Cubans to get cellphone service

Caught this on thestar.com…

Link: Cubans to get cellphone service – thestar.com

HAVANA-President Raul Castro’s government said today it is allowing ordinary Cubans to have cellphones, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign firms or held key posts with the state.

It was the first official announcement of the lifting of a major restriction under the 76-year-old Castro, and marked the kind of small freedom many on the island have been hoping he would embrace since succeeding his older brother Fidel as president last month.

Some Cubans previously ineligible for cellphones had already gotten them by having foreigners sign contracts in their names, but mobile phones are not nearly as common in Cuba as elsewhere in Latin America or the world.

Congrats to the Cubans! (I bet their mobile industry will still be better than Canada’s…)