AT&T, Verizon In Cuba? > Roaming :)

Roaming :)

isnt there one cellular provider in cuba? So i am sure the roaming is super expensive.

reply to bugabuga
It's even better then that, all the companies that do business there will bend over backwards to please the great Cuban Overlords. Look at what they do in China to do business there.
Granted, the economy won't be as large there, but I have heard some say it could become the Las Vegas of the East Coast. When, not if, it opens to Americans, look for a lot of money to be poured into that island.

Havana was Las Vegas before Las Vegas was Las Vegas. I have a friend whose family lost millions when they government shut down their families casino after the revolution.

reply to wifi4milez
Canadian cell phone plans sure can roam in Cuba. I didn't bring my T-Mobile SIM card to check

Calling out of Cuba and into Cuba is phenomenally expensive ($1+/minute). The reasoning is that it's used to raise revenue for the government, basically a tax on incoming and outgoing calls. Cubans are generally too poor to call out, so it's a way of getting their foreign relatives to fund the regime with every phone call in they make.

I really don't see AT&T and these other companies making much of a change. Euro-based cell providers have built the network there anyway, it's not like only Americans can build these networks.

The costs are high not due to inefficiencies, but high tariffs.

reply to seederjed
There's a slight difference between a developing nation of 1.2 billion people, and a 3rd world country with a couple million... And yes, Cuba was Vegas before Vegas was Vegas.