Havana: With the modernization of radio base stations of cellular telephony and the assembly of two completely new ones, the city of Bayamo in the eastern province of Granma, has the technical conditions that allow the access to internet through the use of mobile data under technology 4G, the Cuban News Agency publishes.
The territorial management of the Telecommunications Company of Cuba (Etecsa) advanced the technological infrastructure work foreseen in the 2019 investment plan, which has made it possible for the city to join Varadero, Cárdenas, Matanzas and La Habana (closing until Mariel) as areas enabled for the Cuban test of the LTE standard ("long-term evolution"), known as the fourth generation or 4G.
Rodolfo Olivera, director of Etecsa in Granma, explained that at first the 4G network will optimize - with the same rates and packages designed - the data traffic, whose improvement the customer will appreciate in the notable increase in navigation speed, Uploads, downloads, quality of online video playback and other actions.
In the same way, he said, the benefits in voice traffic will be obvious, since the 3G network that processes the two channels (data and voice) is lightened, and that causes repeated congestion - especially in peak connection times, from six in the afternoon to 11 p.m. - aroused after the launch of internet on mobile phones.
Olivera said that, in accordance with the characteristics of the national test, the services will be gradually enabled, starting with clients classified as high data consumers, until they are expanded to total commercialization.
In any case, he explained, the customer must change the SIM card for a USIM (broadband with modern interpretations) and have a phone that supports 4G at the frequency of 1 800 megahertz.
He stressed that the creation of such technical capabilities in Bayamo required in a very short time an intense work of specialists, technicians and workers, in order to undertake the necessary component changes (antennas, fiber optic downspouts, radios and power panels) in 12 of the existing 3G radio bases in the city, as well as the complete assembly of the two new stations.
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