FIVE MILLION MOBILE PHONE LINES IN CUBA: A CURSE OR CURE?
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Willemstad, Curacao. In 2016, an estimated 62.9 percent of the global population owned a mobile phone.
In 2017, the number of mobile phone users was forecast to reach 4.77 billion.
In 2019, the number of mobile phone users globally is expected to pass the five billion mark.
The mobile phone penetration is forecasted to continue to grow, rounding up to 67 percent by 2019. China was predicted to have just over 1.4 billion mobile connections in 2017 and reach approximately 1.5 billion by 2019. Meanwhile, India was forecast to reach over one billion mobile connections in 2017 and 1.1 billion by 2019.
Most of the mobile market growth can be attributed to the increasing popularity of smartphones. By 2014, around 38 percent of all mobile users were smartphone users.
I bring up smart phone to interconnect the need for internet and the pandemic of social media in the dying age of the belief of communism in one of the last five communist countries, the Republic of Cuba.
In 2011 Cuba, had 1.3 million mobile phone numbers registered and among China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam; all communist countries accounted for about 1.4 billion mobile phone numbers registered, which accounted for about 20 percent of the world total amount of phone numbers registered.
In comparison, Netherlands has about 20 million phone numbers registered with a 1.211 mobile phone numbers registered per national capita; whereas Cuba was at a mere 0.116 mobile phone numbers registered per national capita.
Whereas, in Curacao, the working age group of 15 to 64 years old accounts for more than eight out of every ten persons in Curacao has a mobile phone device and an operating mobile line and access to the internet. Denis O’Brien and Digicel, a leading mobile phone network provider operating throughout the Caribbean, Central America and Oceania regions, along with Mike Fries and Liberty Global, which is the largest international TV and broadband company operating throughout the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao, both operate with impunity, regardless of how apparently or non-apparently corrupt its work or workers or their ethics may or may not be compromised in the name of a higher in-pocket take home pay, something that apparently does not occur in Cuba.
Therefore, could the statistics for Cuba be higher if ETECSA employed the same terms as those exercised in Curacao by Digicel and Liberty Global sister companies?
With a 2.51 percent rate of change in the population in which the current population of Cuba is estimated at 11,488,168 as of Tuesday, April 17, 2018, and this represents an anticipated 0.119 mobile phone numbers registered per national capita for Cuba.
However, the big possible correlation is that there is approximately 4.5 million internet users as of 2016 in Cuba and ETECSA, a company owned and managed by the Cuban government reported, approximately five million active mobile phone lines, which is crudely a raw statistic that’s 43.52 percent of the Cuban population that has in operation an active mobile phone line.
However; looking at the data it is safe to state that approximately 70 percent of the Cuban population is responsible for more than 90 percent of the revenue generated as income or asset accumulation for the active use of these mobile phones in Cuba. In addition with the respective homosexual, heterosexual, friendly or familial relations, inside or out of Cuba, the reason for the active lines seems to be competitive for sustenance on social media, outside contact and communication or some type of business venture for Cubans.
Prostitution is illegal in Cuba and therefore “pimping” as well. As a matter of fact, Fidel Castro tried to stomp out prostitution at the start of his revolution in 1959, but by the early 1990s it came back with a roar; with increasing venues in tourism as an adaption to national economic rift and the US-Cuba embargo.
In early 1998, Fidel Castro announced a war on prostitution; which he called “jineterismo”, also; a war on drugs and violent crime. Before Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency, jineterismo was reportedly higher than ever, based on tourism statistics, and the vices of drugs had deeply penetrated the social fabric of the communist country of Cuba.
However; the jineterismo lifestyle and mentality still occurs rampantly in Cuban relationships (Cuban/non-Cuban and Cuban/Cuban); but this apparently undoubtedly assists the Cuban economy, for example in construction, business venture/entrepreneurship and especially sex-tourism, after all Comandante Fidel Castro once said that Cuban prostitutes are some of the smartest in the world, paraphrasing. Direct quote: “The benefit of revolution is that even our prostitutes are graduates.”
The Cuban secret police and the emergence of Pegasus means that Cuba can now listen in to whomever they need or want to and the sovereign constitution of the Republic of Cuba grants them the rights and privileges to do so. The same way how the USA honed in on Osama Bin Laden, by listening in; on or by active or dormant cell phones of his or in his vicinity, otherwise known as eavesdropping.
But don’t worry Cuba, The Cuban secret police and the Cuban ministry of defence or communication respects privacy of its visitors and citizens alike, even of their internet users, so no one should expect the laws of digital privacy or cyber-privacy to prevail, nor be ensured, nor be respected as they would the deceased Comandante Fidel Castro-Ruz! So even having five million active cell phones lines in Cuba means that there is possibly five million ears listening in, so is that a curse or a cure?
In 2017, the number of mobile phone users was forecast to reach 4.77 billion.
In 2019, the number of mobile phone users globally is expected to pass the five billion mark.
The mobile phone penetration is forecasted to continue to grow, rounding up to 67 percent by 2019. China was predicted to have just over 1.4 billion mobile connections in 2017 and reach approximately 1.5 billion by 2019. Meanwhile, India was forecast to reach over one billion mobile connections in 2017 and 1.1 billion by 2019.
Most of the mobile market growth can be attributed to the increasing popularity of smartphones. By 2014, around 38 percent of all mobile users were smartphone users.
I bring up smart phone to interconnect the need for internet and the pandemic of social media in the dying age of the belief of communism in one of the last five communist countries, the Republic of Cuba.
In 2011 Cuba, had 1.3 million mobile phone numbers registered and among China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam; all communist countries accounted for about 1.4 billion mobile phone numbers registered, which accounted for about 20 percent of the world total amount of phone numbers registered.
In comparison, Netherlands has about 20 million phone numbers registered with a 1.211 mobile phone numbers registered per national capita; whereas Cuba was at a mere 0.116 mobile phone numbers registered per national capita.
Whereas, in Curacao, the working age group of 15 to 64 years old accounts for more than eight out of every ten persons in Curacao has a mobile phone device and an operating mobile line and access to the internet. Denis O’Brien and Digicel, a leading mobile phone network provider operating throughout the Caribbean, Central America and Oceania regions, along with Mike Fries and Liberty Global, which is the largest international TV and broadband company operating throughout the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao, both operate with impunity, regardless of how apparently or non-apparently corrupt its work or workers or their ethics may or may not be compromised in the name of a higher in-pocket take home pay, something that apparently does not occur in Cuba.
Therefore, could the statistics for Cuba be higher if ETECSA employed the same terms as those exercised in Curacao by Digicel and Liberty Global sister companies?
With a 2.51 percent rate of change in the population in which the current population of Cuba is estimated at 11,488,168 as of Tuesday, April 17, 2018, and this represents an anticipated 0.119 mobile phone numbers registered per national capita for Cuba.
However, the big possible correlation is that there is approximately 4.5 million internet users as of 2016 in Cuba and ETECSA, a company owned and managed by the Cuban government reported, approximately five million active mobile phone lines, which is crudely a raw statistic that’s 43.52 percent of the Cuban population that has in operation an active mobile phone line.
However; looking at the data it is safe to state that approximately 70 percent of the Cuban population is responsible for more than 90 percent of the revenue generated as income or asset accumulation for the active use of these mobile phones in Cuba. In addition with the respective homosexual, heterosexual, friendly or familial relations, inside or out of Cuba, the reason for the active lines seems to be competitive for sustenance on social media, outside contact and communication or some type of business venture for Cubans.
Prostitution is illegal in Cuba and therefore “pimping” as well. As a matter of fact, Fidel Castro tried to stomp out prostitution at the start of his revolution in 1959, but by the early 1990s it came back with a roar; with increasing venues in tourism as an adaption to national economic rift and the US-Cuba embargo.
In early 1998, Fidel Castro announced a war on prostitution; which he called “jineterismo”, also; a war on drugs and violent crime. Before Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency, jineterismo was reportedly higher than ever, based on tourism statistics, and the vices of drugs had deeply penetrated the social fabric of the communist country of Cuba.
However; the jineterismo lifestyle and mentality still occurs rampantly in Cuban relationships (Cuban/non-Cuban and Cuban/Cuban); but this apparently undoubtedly assists the Cuban economy, for example in construction, business venture/entrepreneurship and especially sex-tourism, after all Comandante Fidel Castro once said that Cuban prostitutes are some of the smartest in the world, paraphrasing. Direct quote: “The benefit of revolution is that even our prostitutes are graduates.”
The Cuban secret police and the emergence of Pegasus means that Cuba can now listen in to whomever they need or want to and the sovereign constitution of the Republic of Cuba grants them the rights and privileges to do so. The same way how the USA honed in on Osama Bin Laden, by listening in; on or by active or dormant cell phones of his or in his vicinity, otherwise known as eavesdropping.
But don’t worry Cuba, The Cuban secret police and the Cuban ministry of defence or communication respects privacy of its visitors and citizens alike, even of their internet users, so no one should expect the laws of digital privacy or cyber-privacy to prevail, nor be ensured, nor be respected as they would the deceased Comandante Fidel Castro-Ruz! So even having five million active cell phones lines in Cuba means that there is possibly five million ears listening in, so is that a curse or a cure?
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