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HAVANA — Lines stretched for blocks outside phone centers Monday as the government allowed ordinary Cubans to sign up for cellphone service for the first time.
The contracts cost the U.S. equivalent of about $120 to activate — half a year’s wages on the average state salary. And that doesn’t include a phone or credit for calls.
Cuba’s government limited access to mobile phones and other so-called luxuries in an attempt to preserve the relative economic equality on the communist-run island.
President Raul Castro has done away with several other restrictions, and his popularity has surged as a result.
