Or lots of Cuban, umm, entrepreneurs, will be uploading pics v-e-r-y slowly to potential tric...customers...
Posted on 12/5/2018, 5:48:04 PM by Snickering Hound
Cuba has announced that 3G internet access for cell phone users across the country will become available from Thursday.
The Caribbean island nation, which exists under communist rule, opened state-run internet cafes in 2013 and citizens have only had access to home internet and public Wi-Fi hotspots since 2017. In that same year, Google servers in Cuba went live, making the internet giant the first foreign internet company to host content in the country.
Announcing the deal on television on Tuesday night, executives from Cuba's state telecom monopoly ETECSA said they will offer packages of data ranging from 600 MB for 7 convertible Cuban pesos ($7) to 4 GB for 30 Cuban pesos ($30).
According to Trading Economics, the average Cuban in 2017 took home a state salary equating to around $30 each month.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Great, now Sean Penn will feel comfortable moving there.
600 MB isn’t much for lolcat pics.
That’s a lot of tin cans and string.
“Making it available as of Thursday” = “The infrastructure has existed for party members for some time”.
Isn’t it dangerous, for a totalitarian society, to give unfettered access to the internet to their people???
All 10 of them?..................at the same time?...................
Somehow I suspect it is not unfettered.
Not unfettered, and it may well enable closer tracking of dissent and thought crime.
AOL dialup?
Don’t do it, Cuba! A lot of your citizens will catch ‘Selfie-Fever’ and Body Self Image Issues, not just 11 y/o girls, but people from all walks of life.
Or lots of Cuban, umm, entrepreneurs, will be uploading pics v-e-r-y slowly to potential tric...customers...
Wow...that socialism is right on top of things....glad they’re cutting edge.
Isn’t socialism great!
Now with Interwebs!
Just place your phone into the modem cradle.
“EYORrrrrrrr SQUELCH....EYORrrrrrrr SQUELCH....EYORrrrrrrr SQUELCH.... brrrdlrdrlrdlrdlr.beeeeep_.-+*^!”
If it was any worse people wouldn’t want it and if it was any better they wouldn’t let you have it.
“Isn’t it dangerous, for a totalitarian society, to give unfettered access to the internet to their people???”
It is, but it is also an opportunity for that same totalitarian to keep track of those people. Every voluntarily uploaded shared picture, every GPS tag, every app that tracks preferences, every time a call or text is exchanged can be linked to people. If it becomes necessary to find a person, once into the network, the totalitarian government will be able to find that person.
Gonna take some fancy footwork for a resistance to use the interwebs to resist.....
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KYPD
On the plus side there will be a ton of used fax machines flooding the market cheap.
Well there’s that.
The world’s oldest profession is often the first to embrace new technology in order to improve the Bottom Line.
However...Michelle's school lunches are inferior to their daily bread.
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