Restricting access to Internet in Cuba has a political background, but technical. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Communications of the island, Jorge Luis Perdomo, who stressed the Castro Government's willingness to open Internet access to citizens in general.
Recall that in Cuba access to Internet is limited to academics, government officials and foreign businessmen.
The reason for this restriction? According to the Government because the speed of the network connection is really slow and very costly: The Island has Internet since 1996 via a satellite link with a bandwidth that allows just 393 megabytes per second downstream and 209 rise.
And in several occasions the Cuban government has explained that the slowness and high cost means having a satellite connection is the main reason that its citizens can not Internet recruiting services in their homes.
why the arrival of the 1,630 kilometers of fiber optic cable ALBA-1 that will connect Cuba and Venezuela on the seabed to offer greater speed Internet connection to Cuban represents an important opportunity for democratizing access to the Web
This cable multiplied by 3,000 times the speed of transmission of data, images and voice that Cuba now has a bandwidth of 640 gigabytes and capacity for 10 million simultaneous phone transmissions, lowering further the cost.
however, should not claim victory: While the official Castro stressed that there is no "restriction policy consideration" to open access to the Internet to the Cuban people, also clarified that the cable will not be laid from Venezuela a "magic wand" and that to bring the Internet into the homes of citizens are still needed investments in network infrastructure ...
So have to wait until July, when in operation the optical fiber system is increase and cheaper Internet connection to see what measures the Government deploys Raul Castro for the Network is available to most Cubans ... Now the "U.S. blockade" will not be an obstacle.
Link : Cuba sees no political obstacles to open to the public Internet ( World )
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