Boost Mobile selling prepaid cards for Cuba calls and texts

Boost Mobile selling prepaid cards for Cuba calls and texts
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
04/17/2015 7:16 PM 04/17/2015 7:17 PM

NEW YORK
Sprint's Boost Mobile business is offering prepaid calling cards for
Miami customers who want to call Cuba.

Boost Mobile said Thursday that customers can pay $50 per month for a
card that includes 5 gigabytes of high speed data and $60 a month for 10
GB of data. Both cards will give consumers the ability to talk on the
phone for 15 minutes with unlimited texting.

For a limited time, the company is also offering $15 cards with 50
minutes of talk time.

Cuba charges some of the world's highest rates for long-distance
calling, and calls into Cuba are also among the world's most expensive.
In March a New Jersey-based company that sells discount international
calling cards to immigrant communities said it started handling direct
calls between the U.S. and Cuba. IDT Corp. previously struck a deal with
Cuba's state telecommunications company.

The U.S. and Cuba said in December that they would move to restore
diplomatic relations after more than 50 years. The two nations announced
a prisoner exchange, and on Tuesday the White House said President Obama
will remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.

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