Cuba postpones tightened controls on Internet use
Monday, January 26, 2004
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's state telephone company said it has postponed plans to limit Internet access for Cubans whose telephone bills are paid in local currency.
In a message to clients Saturday, the company ETECSA said the measures would not take effect that day as scheduled but at some unspecified time in the future.
The new regulations are a bid to stop password piracy and would not affect Internet access from phone service paid in US dollars.
Cuba charges that since it only has limited Internet access as a nation it can maintain only low volumes of customers. Social organizations should thus have priority to access the Internet while paying in Cuban pesos, worth 26 to the US dollar.
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