The Cuban authorities want to eradicate the tenancy of satellite dishes and of reception of signs of TV for satellite, which are illegal in the island, and adviertien from that the sanctions can come to jail sorrow

The daily official 'Granma' affirmed that 'no illegality can remain unpunished' and reported that a dozen of Cuban who were devoting themselves to sell and load cards of reception of signs of satellite of the company DirecTV, will have to answer before the justice for the crimes of illicit economic activities and receptación.

The sanctions for these illegal activities can go from high fines, the goods confiscation and up to sorrow of 3 and 5 years of jail.

According to the newspaper, the involved ones in two cases identified like 'Aerie' and 'Miami II', they will be judged for giving the service without having permission for it, what is sanctioned by more hardness when labor is hired or materials of illegal origin are used.

'Granma' he says that the implied ones were acquiring the cards decodificadoras in an illicit way across residents in the USA, and that they were using in the business computers connected to Internet.

He underlines that 'they were carrying out illegally this activity for which the Department of Labour and Social security does not grant worker's license for proper account'.

Also, he remembers that the regulations established by the Department of the Computer science and the Communications 'prohíben to produce and to exploit television programs distribution services to natural and juridical persons without the due authorization'.

'They are not missing who turn this into a substantial business 'to fatten' his pockets of an illicit way', it adds.

It stresses that the involved ones in these activities 'help to make' the programs of the United States viable 'to destroy the Cuban Revolution, which destines large sums to make to come to Cuba the counterrevolutionary television sign'.

The newspaper reported also that last week there seized in three municipalities of Havana coaxial cable, three recipients, five satellite dishes, 43 amplifiers, a computer, three cards and 157 multipliers of television signs persons who were dedicating to receive and to distribute illegally indicate for satellite.

He adds that fines of 1.000, 1.500 were imposed on the transgressors and up to 10.000 and 20.000 Cuban weight (equivalent to approximately 38, 56, 222 and 444 dollars, respectively, to the official change).

In spite of the warnings and the prohibitions, many Cuban is provided with antennas and illegal recipients camouflaged in housings, balconies, roofs, courtyards and gardens.

Tens persons can gain access to the same service 'subscribing' to a neighbor who has a recipient and who extends a cable, sometimes of hundreds of meters of length, creating a local mini-network known popularly how 'network scratches'.

For a monthly quota that ranges between 5 and 10 convertible Cuban weight (1 convertible weight is equivalent to 1,08 dollars), the neighbors can see illegally the programming of international chains of Miami, the CNN or International Spanish Television, what the 'bundle' of the principal user is.


(14/05/07)