Cuba: Internet services suspended for international calls
The Cuban government suspended telephone services via the Internet for foreign calls, government officials who asked not to be identified told Efe on Wednesday.
The use of Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, services was authorized “exclusively nationwide,” according to a resolution of the Cuban Telecommunications Ministry issued in May 2008.
However, to date the resolution has not been implemented “for technical reasons that have been overcome,” one of the sources said, adding that the suspension of sevice “will not be temporary, but definitive.”
Efe confirmed that some Skype accounts remained active on Wednesday, but they had access to very few of their normal contacts. The rest of the accounts were impossible to open from different computers in Havana, and thus voice services like instant messaging were unable to be used.
With regard to Google and Yahoo, their VoIP services continue functioning within Cuba, but in almost no case for calls abroad, while the IM services of those companies do not appear to have been affected.
Microsoft earlier discontinued its IM service in Cuba to comply with the U.S. economic embargo against the communist-ruled island.
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
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