Urgent: Cuba, U.S. telecom firms conclude talks to sign accord for direct connection

Cuba's state-owned Telecommunications Company SC (ETECSA) and the U.S. IDT Domestic Telecom, INC. (IDT) had concluded talks for the signing of a Service Agreement for the Operation of International Telecommunications, which will allow direct interconnection between the United States and Cuba, a release of the Cuban enterprise said here Friday. Endite