Cellular phone and data services down across Cuba

Havana: An outage Thursday night knocked out cellular telephone and data services across much of Cuba, state-owned telecom company Etecsa said.

“We inform our customers that there is currently an outage on mobile services. We are working to identify the malfunction for services to be resumed as soon as possible,” the company said on its Twitter account.

Cell phone services — calls, texting and internet browsing — began experiencing issues around 7:00 pm (2400 GMT Friday), several AFP journalists observed.

“One hour without internet (even if it is not rare), but without being able to make a call… and without texting. Even the emergency numbers are out of service, it’s really catastrophic,” said a Twitter user identifying herself as Rosanna and living in the province of Camaguey.