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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...

Generation Y blog claims “You’re not in the package”

A recent blog posted by Yoani Sánchez on Generation Y and also found in her new digital newspaper 14ymedio.com references the unique Cuban phenomenon of distributing popular, yet often censured audiovisual materials via flash drives and dvds.In particular, she notes...

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,...

How Cubans Are Using Thumb Drives to Spread Web Access via Fusion

The Connect Cuba campaign was featured in a Fusion Live report earlier this week. According to the new Univision / ABC News venture aimed at engaging U.S. Hispanic millennials, the recent headlines on the “Cuban Twitter” program known as ZunZuneo are...

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...