Cuba tells on just modernized network of digital telephony that covers all the country and despite which the fixed line number as much movable is still enough low, the certain thing is that from any tourist destiny or city one it is possible to be communicated with any other place in the island or abroad.

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The wire net to make calls within the national territory the public cabins can be used that accept currencies or cards paid in national currency and that are distributed by the cities and towns, single is enough to exchange to some dollar in Cuban Pesos  and making the call from money can here be saved since they are very economic. Also it is possible to be called from the telephone centers and if the call is national it receives by all means in national currency and from any telephone deprived like anywhere of the world.

In order to call to the foreigner it is necessary to use public cabins that accept cards paid in CUC (Cuban Convertible weight), these cabins are in telephone hotels, airports, centers, etc. Also the calls to the foreigner can be done from the hotels (rooms or asking for it in the folder) and from telephone centers that exist in all the cities and tourist destinies, or from a cellular telephone.

In order to call to Cuba

To call to Cuba from any country by means of the teleselección, it must mark:

1. Area code of international exit of the country where the call is originated. 
2. Code of Cuba: 53. 
3. Code of the area or locality: codes (click to see the telephone codes of the main localities in Cuba here). 
4. Wished number.

Example: In order to call from Chile to Havana, it must mark:

123 area code of international exit in Santiago, Chile.

53 code of Cuba. 

7 code of the area and the wished number. 

123 53 7 + wished number.

In order to call from Cuba to the foreigner

 To call to another country from Cuba by means of the teleselección, it must mark:

1. Area code of international exit of Cuba: 119. 
2. Code from the country to which it is called. 
3. Code of the area. 
4. Wished number.

Example: in order to call from Cuba to Santiago, Chile, is due to mark:

119, area code of international exit of Cuba. 

56, Code of Chile. 

2, code of the area of Santiago and the wished number.

Cellular Telephony

Cubacel is the company that offers the service of cellular telephony in the entire island a cover that although does not cover all the national territory if it includes all the main cities and tourist destinies of the country.

Cubacel, offers services of cellular telephony with national cover in norms GSM and TDMA. The same one operates in the frequencies 850/900 MHZ in technology GSM and 800MHZ in the TDMA. The band of 850MHZ (GSM) has been activated recently by Cubacel and is available in Havana City, Varadero and the Keys Coco and Guillermo.

Thanks to agreements of roaming international that the company has with international partners it is possible to use in Cuba cellular telephones of almost any part of Europe, America and part of Asia. In addition, it is possible to buy or to rent an apparatus at the time of contracting the services of cellular telephony.

Zones of cover with technology TDMA

Operates in the frequency of 800 MHZ and it has signed agreements of roaming international with 14 companies in 8 countries, these are:

 Zones of cover with technology GSM

Operates  in the frequency of 900 MHZ (national cover) and recently the band of 850 MHZ has activated with cover in City of Havana, Varadero, Key Coco and Guillermo. There are agreements of roaming international with companies of telecommunications in 60 countries, individual with main operators GSM of Europe. Some of the operators and countries are:

 The tariffs of the cellular telephony

Called of a cellular telephone to one fixed:

 Call of a cellular telephone to another cellular one:

 It prices NORMAL (Monday through Friday (8:00 a.m. to 7:59 p.m.).

It quarrels REDUCED: Monday through Friday (8: 00 p.m. to 7:59 a.m.) and Saturdays, Sundays and Holiday Days the 24 hours.

Price of the SMS

Within the national territory: 0,16 CUC by message; to the foreigner: 1,00 CUC by message.

The tariffs of international calls in the cellular telephony are the following ones:

 Quota of activation

 You can activate your cellular telephone in Cuba or activate a line and rent a telephone by the time of stay in the country; or it can activate a permanent line if its stay in the island is prolonged, the prices are:.

Telephone codes

The telephone calls to any city of the world can be made from the room of the hotel, in the offices of the Tele correos or the International Telephone Center.