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Cuba Adopts Mobile Email Causing Outages
- ABC News, Monday, May 19, 2014 2:33 PM
Cuba's state telecom Etecsa has begun allowing users to send emails from their phones. Unfortunately, the system was not built to support the volume of messages that users were sending and the service has experienced major outages. The island's old cellphone towers were swamped which had a negative effect on the email platform, as well as the service's mobile phone calling and texting ability.
