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ETECSA raids Cuban homes for Wi-Fi networks

According to an article in Martí News, Cuban police have searched several homes in Havana and confiscated devices with Wi-Fi capacity. As the State’s telecommunications monopoly, ETECSA has played a large role in the recent crackdown. According to reports, ETECSA...

Cuban blogger explains just how creative locals have to be to connect

According to a recent post in Marti News, “though Twitter is a free service in and of itself, it is costing the people of Cuba plenty.” However, in Cuba, when one road is blocked, either through censorship, repression, or extreme cost restrictions, the...

Cuba’s Monopolistic Telecom Service is Facing an Epic Fail

According to Diario de Cuba and América TeVé, ETECSA (Cuba Telecommunications Company S.A.), the only Cuban telecommunications company on the island, is suffering from a data overload following the opening of a new system of e-mail messages available on cell phones,...

ETECSA subscribers complain about a “scam” at the hand’s of Cuba’s telecom monopoly

According to a recent Martí News article “Activists and independent journalists who report on Twitter from their cell phones , have found in recent weeks that their tweets have never been published anywhere , even though the Telecommunications Company of Cuba...

ETECSA monopoly denies possibility of internet in Cuban homes

The Cuban Telecommunications monopoly, ETECSA, denied on Monday various media reports on the possibility that Cubans may have internet access from their homes in the near future. According ETECSA, “the data provided by various international sites regarding the...