CAMAGÜEY.- As one of the priority programs in the country, increasing IT use throughout society steps forward non-stopping. In Camagüey, the Telecommunications Enterprise of Cuba (Etecsa) concentrated its work in 2019 on the infrastructure to develop, primarily, data connectivity.

According to Radio Florida, there the technology still must be enhanced its quality to support the navigation of users of that territory, the second highest inhabited in the province of Camagüey. Four third-generation radio bases and three 2G devices do not put up with many times the number of connected to the Internet through mobile data.

Up till now, the Nauta Home contracts exceed 400 services. However, this benefit is considered limited because the demand far outstrips the current supply.

According to Radio Nuevitas, San Miguel benefited from the extension of fixed telephony, starting with the digitalization of telephone operators in that people’s council. Also, from the strategy to expand wireless connections into the communities, wifi sites were installed in the 12-story building in Nuevitas, In Planta Real hotel in San Miguel and in the telephone center in Santa Lucía.

Moreover, as published by the Cuban news agency, this town will be one of the four benefited in Camagüey with new transmitters for the issuing of digital terrestrial tv (DTT) and high definition (HD), with the subsequent increase in signal coverage. The other three: Sierra de Cubitas, Esmeralda and Santa Cruz del Sur.

Likewise, the website of Radio Vertientes reveals the resonances left to that demarcation on border telecommunications in 2019. They have a 3G radio base giving coverage to the entire residential area from two areas for Wi-Fi connection, even though it does not operate optimally in the whole municipality. It also turned out it was one of the most benefited territories with the enlargement of the capacity of the installment for internet access from home in the last year, along with Camagüey city, Florida, Esmeralda, Minas and Nuevitas.

With a general focus, Camagüey “communicates” more and better. In a work published in this page last December, it transcends that among 362 805 phone lines existing there, more than 24700 were activated in 2019. más y mejor. En trabajo publicado en diciembre pasado en esta página trasciende que de las 362 805 líneas que aquí existen, más de 24 700 fueron activadas en 2019. 21 fourth-generation (4G) base stations were located, increasing the access of Camagüey people to this technology. The facility of third-generation (3G) has also been extended to the municipal administrative centers. Likewise, about 28000 residential users, of a total of 40000 in the provincial capital, can employ the service. This represents 70.2 %.

In the current February Leandro Parada, running this over here the Division of the Company of Radiocommunications and Broadcasting of Cuba (RadioCuba), explained to the ACN that with the coverage will speed up with the four new transmitters until the transition from the analogue television to the digital one takes place, a process which is in its fourth phase in the country. The assembly should be completed in 15 days, a big challenge the entity will overcome when the devices arrive in the province, currently with coverage of 73 % of digital terrestrial television (DTT), and a 40 % of HD.

Since 2013, when the first of the transmiters began functioning in Camagüey, seven for DTT and one for HD have been installed in the province. The manager emphasized that they have the adequate technological conditions to make the transition from analogue to digital television, when decided by the leaders in the country, starting from the existence of modern transmitters and that the population had acquired the receiver equipments, the note continues.

This week, in the annual report of the Ministry of Communications, Mayra Arevich, executive president of Etecsa, said that with more than 3,4 million users using the Internet service over mobile data and six million subscribers of mobile-service, the major projections of the company for 2020 address, among other issues, the improvement of offers and the prices of the services, guaranteeing the client to play a bigger role and continuous innovation, in accordance with Granma.

Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, minister in this area pointed out the quote: “Services must be diversified, exported, let’s search more innovative models of trade that bring benefit for the entry of income in the country, export, fulfill foreign investment projects, support, in short, what is known abroad as digital economy”. He further reported that Wi-Fi technology is planned to be replaced by another one with more capacity, which will also allow to extend the teecommunications conditions and to lower the prices of conectivity.

Keila Novoa Ricardo/ Journalism student