U.S. Should Put End to Cuba Telecom Restrictions, Report Says

Fabiola Moura
Bloomberg
July 15, 2010

The U.S. should end commercial telecommunications restrictions on Cuba to allow companies to tap a market of 11.3 million people, according to a report from the Cuba Study Group to be released in Washington today.

“Expanding the opportunity for U.S. telecom investors and companies to provide cell phone and Internet service to the island will help ensure that Cuban citizens possess the tools to become productive economic citizens,” the report, written in conjunction with the Council of the Americas and the Brookings Institute, said.

Cuba has 1.8 million Internet users, about 16 percent of the island’s population, “the lowest level of Internet penetration in the hemisphere and one of the lowest in the world,” the report said. By comparison, about 23 percent of Haiti’s population has Internet access, it said.

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