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Article: Cuba has fewest cell phones of any nation in the hemisphere.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2006
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Byline: Doreen Hemlock
HAVANA, Cuba _ Cell phones are becoming commonplace worldwide. In Lithuania, Jamaica and at least a dozen more nations, there are more than one per resident. In the United States, they're popular even among middle school students.
But a cell phone in Cuba is about as rare as an American executive without one.
While the communist-led nation takes pride in its accomplishments in health and education, it ranks dead last in the Americas in cell phones per person and shares the second worst standing in the world, according to a new U.N. study.
Less than 2 percent of Cuban residents have cell phones, a ranking on par ...