Posted on 06/14/2015 8:02:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A Google executive is headed to Cuba this weekend to explore bringing better Internet access to the island, and the search giant has made a related proposal to the Cuban government, according to a State Department official.
It’s the latest sign that U.S. tech companies are testing the seriousness of Cuba’s interest in opening up to outside investment after President Barack Obama’s announcement of a historic thaw in relations and the Raúl Castro-led government’s recent pledge to bring Internet access to all Cubans by 2020.
n Cuba today, only about five percent of the population has Internet access, and cellphone service can be sloth-like where it’s available at all. Google is known for its experimentation with non-traditional ways of spreading the Internet, often routing around incumbent providers. Its Project Loon uses high-altitude balloons to carry access to hard-to-connect places, and Google Fiber has forged partnerships with U.S. cities to sell moderately-priced, ultra-high-speed broadband services.
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I cannot wait to see the Google Street View of Havana.
I hope they don’t drink it first.
Yeah. Like caving into Chinese government demands to turn over information about users and blocking access to sites critical of the tyrannical government.
Good on ya, Google.
this was always about big business getting into Cuba. Soon we will lose jobs to them and the import/export ratio will be brutally against us. And the regime wont change one bit but will have more money for terrorism and the military.
sounds familiar?
Will the Hilton family get its hotels back as part of this new effort?
Not that I want Paris Hilton to ever see a dime of it.
The Cubans are going to make the Nigerian scam artists look like neophytes. Get ready.
All around the world and in every American city, the failure of liberal socialism is on display for all to see, but instead of changing course, the motto is “raise taxes on those wealthy racist whites!”
Now we are importing the third world into our country and building third world hell holes like Cuba with our hard earned tax dollars, all brought down by liberal socialist communist!
Marguerite Thatcher once said: “Communist never tire of spending other people's money!”
After the American tax payer rebuilds another communist shit hole in Cuba, then the liberal socialist will all teach everyone how communism was a success and after all, if it wasn't for those racist bastards in America, Cuba would have been flourishing long before now!
33% of the country will vote for the Hilda Beast no matter what crimes she commits, simply because they believe she will steal from the hard working Americans and give it to them! Google will only invest in Cuba when the Federal Government starts a program to give all Cubans FREE access to the internet at another expense to the American people, just like the Obama phones that were handed out like candy to the down trodden and stepped on minorities in this country!
This will never end until the American people rise up and take back their country from the free loaders!Now we will have another failed communist country to rebuild with our tax dollars all the while calling Cuba a great communist country by the liberal socialist in this country taking our hard earned tax dollars and sending it to Cuba, Mexico, and all other failed communist countries!
SHARK BITE ALERT !!!!!
Any firm wishing to hire a Cuban must pay the Cuban government, which in turn will pay the employee in Cuban pesos.[169] The average monthly wage as of July 2013 is 466 Cuban pesos, which are worth about US$19.
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The East German economy
The estimated 1984 per capita income was $9,800 ($21,000 in 2008 dollars). In 1976, the average annual growth of the GDP was approximately five percent. This made East German economy the richest in all of the Soviet Bloc until 1990 after the Communist collapse in the country
The Cubans know how to live cheap/ OR DIE.
The mafia was big there too. but they were much more powerful then. i think their day is done.
China is not one iota more free since Nixon opened up to them. that was the whole point. and it failed.
disgusting.
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