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Cuban Regime Creates Union of “I.T. Professionals” to Defend “Sovereignty”

As published in Diario de Cuba, Havana announced on Monday the establishment of a new worker’s union specifically for information technology (I.T.) professionals “The Informatics Union of Cuba.” During the official “constitutional...

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...

Cuba’s WiFi: “Expensive, Uncomfortable, and Dangerous”

As published in Diario de Cuba, “access to Internet for Cubans, via open WiFi zones in the country, is very expensive (2.00 CUC per hour, approx $2 U.S.D.), slow and far from achieving wide coverage.”In addition, “the 35 areas in Cuba designated to...