Cubans will be able to pay their electricity bill from a mobile application

A new update to EnZona, the application that aims to concentrate all electronic commerce in one place, will facilitate the payment of electricity bills, serving one of the services demanded by the population.

The platform was announced by the Cuban company Xetid, which specializes in computer, automation and telecommunications services,according to Cubadebate.

After having provided less than two months of services, EnZona stopped for its update since Saturday, September 21. So far, it registers a total of 17,000 Cuban users using it.

“Our special thanks to those who have joined the work with us these days, generating ideas and providing solutions, which have allowed us to perfect the infrastructure, services aimed at commerce, electronic payments and APIs.

All people and entities that wish to create or provide commerce, payments, procedures and electronic government services, for the good of everyone in Cuba, have ENZONA, an integrative platform, which facilitates their work, thinking about Cuba and the Cubans," their administrators communicate.

EnZona had beenpreviously criticized: “We continue to insist on creating an increasing number of applications, without them having sufficient quality. In my opinion, it would be better to have a single platform for electronic payments, but one that works optimally,” said Indira, a 31-year-old cyberneticist.

He also noted that there seemed to be the intention for Cubans to continue disseminating their personal data in a greater number of databases, while criticizing the need to stay connected due to the expensive mobile data provided by the Cuban network.

At the Havana International Fair, FIHAV 2018, theETECSA Telecommunications Company, carried out tests with a new version of the Transfermóvil application.

It offered the possibility of recharging cell phones by associating this application with the magnetic cards of the Banco de Crédito y Comercio (BANDEC), or the Banco Popular de Ahorro (BPA), indicating that it could be operated in the two currencies that circulate in the country. .

“We want to look like the world, but we continue to err on the side of improvisation. It would be super comfortable not to have to carry money in our wallet and join the technological development that exists in the rest of the planet, but not if it is at the cost of our privacy being violated," Dariel, a computer scientist who was dedicated to repair cell phones in Central Havana.