
17 August 2021
Cuba updates legal framework on telecommunications.
Decree-Law No. 35 ¨Of Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technologies and the use of the Radioelectric Spectrum¨; It is the first legal standard of superior rank approved in our country on Telecommunications services, Information and Communication Technologies and on the Use of the Radioelectric Spectrum. This Decree is transversal in the processes of society, which allows greater coherence and ordering of the existing regulatory framework. Its complementary norms are aimed at development, technological convergence and prioritizing the implementation of broadband networks, as well as protecting the interests of citizens and their constitutional rights, by contributing to the political, economic and social development of the country, through development and modernization of telecommunications infrastructures and, furthermore, promote the harmonious and orderly progress of telecommunications / ICT networks and services. For this, the State designates the Ministry of Communications as rector in the development and modernization of telecommunications infrastructures with an emphasis on broadband and broadcasting, the maximum use of these with integrity, rationality and the maximization of their contribution to economic development and social services of the nation, as well as people's access to the Internet and other value-added telecommunications services, through authorized public service operators.