Open Letter: Connect Cuba to ETECSA…Regarding the Logo
February 9th, 2016 Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA)Centro de Negocios Miramaredificio Beijing, 5to pisoAve 3ra, e/ 76 y 78Playa, La Habana. CP. 11300CUBADear ETECSA:We have discovered, via your official web portal “CubaSi.cu,” that you...
Is Cuba Building the Next Great “Cyber Wall” with China?
The Associated Press ran a story Sunday on Cuba’s announcement of a pilot project to launch broadband Internet service in two Havana neighborhoods. It mentions that ETECSA, the country’s state run telecommunications monopoly, will allow Cubans in Old Havana to “order...
Havana Wi-Fi Conference Incurs Dubious “Last Minute” Setbacks
As published recently in Diario de Cuba, Latvia based MicroTik, a company that, according to its website, “was founded in 1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems”, and today “provides hardware and software for Internet connectivity in most...
D.W. Publishes Report on Cuba’s Limited, Censured Wi-Fi, and “StreetNets”
In a recent video report, Deutsche Welle mentions that “Cuba is considered one of the countries with the least internet connection.”After the opening of 35 precarious WiFi hotspots last year, Cubans can now get a limited, expensive and censored view of the...