Workaround for 2.6 Million Cubans Who Want to Get a Peak at the Web
As published in Vice Motherboard, a nonprofit Miami based startup Apretaste, has “set up a system to allow Cubans to browse the web via email, which more people have access to. Only about 400,000 Cubans can freely browse the web, according to Apretaste, but 2.6...
“Determination, Patience,” Two Key Requisites for Accessing Limited Havana Wi-Fi
As published in WPLG Local 10, “Cuba has some of the lowest levels of connectivity worldwide. The government’s ETECSA runs a telecommunications monopoly. And when Google offered to improve the island’s Internet infrastructure free of charge, Raul...
After Several Days of Complaints, Cuba’s State Run Telecom Monopoly Admits to “Technical Failure”
As reported in Diario de Cuba, “after several days of complaints from users, the state telecommunications monopoly (ETECSA) admitted on Tuesday to ‘irregularities’ in their e-mail service.”In a note published in government run Cuban media,...
WIRED Article on “Lack of” Broadband in Mississippi Eerily Similar to Modern Day Cuba
In WIRED’s recently published article, “The Land That the Internet Era Forgot” author and journalist, W. Ralph Eubanks travels to his native Mississippi to sit down with Roberto Gallardo, an extension professor at Mississippi State University, whose...