Showing posts with label Cuban policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuban policy. Show all posts
Sunday, November 17, 2019

5G for fixed connectivity in Cuba

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ETECSA reports that over 110,100 Cuban households have DSL connectivity using their Nauta Hogar service. There are also shared facilites --...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Cuba claims new regulations expand Internet access to homes and businesses, but here's the downside

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The new regulations establish constraints on private network transmission power and cabling that, if enforced, would put Cuba's cooperat...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Cuba's new WiFi regulations -- a step forward, backward or sideways?

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Cuba has legalized WiFi access to public Internet hotspots from nearby homes and small businesses, but SNET and other community networks rem...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Google and ETECSA will agree to exchange Internet traffic without charge

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This agreement telegraphs a change in Cuban policy -- now we need the cable. Google and ETECSA have signed a memorandum of understanding ...
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Friday, June 1, 2018

Update on Cuban advances in the "computerization of society"

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A recent televised roundtable enumerated advances in the computerization of Cuban society, including: Telephone density is 58% with 6.5 mil...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Questions about Cuba's 3G mobile expansion

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I hope ETECSA is planning for the future and views this 3G rollout as an interim stopgap. ETECSA is rolling out 3G mobile service in Hava...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Cuban tech entrepreneurs -- new values?

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Might Cuban entrepreneurs develop uniquely Cuban enterprises? A while ago, I pointed out that offical Cuban attitudes toward self-employed...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Why not connect the Gaspar Social streetnet to the Internet?

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Grupo creativo Gaspar Social ( source ) I've been covering Cuban streetnets (local area networks with independent users that are not...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Trying to predict Miguel Díaz-Canel's Internet policy

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Glasnost which undermined the USSR and other socialist countries consisted in handing over the mass media, one by one, to the enemies of soc...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Cuba's self-employed computer programmers

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The Cuban government has licensed more self-employed computer programmers than clowns and button coverers combined. The other day I wrote ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Exporting Cuban software and programming -- the times they are a changin'

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TICS 2017 taglines : Intercambio entre los sectores estatal y no estatal and Juntos por la sociedad I've been tracking the nascent Cu...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

There is no Cuban home Internet plan -- and that's good news.

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I've followed Cuba's home-connectivity "plan" from the time it was leaked in 2015 until the recent Havana home Internet t...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

US-Cuba diplomacy is picking up.

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This is somewhat off the subject of this blog, but it seems that US-Cuba diplomacy might be picking up steam. It may be coincidence, but thr...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Criticism is not subversive

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" Write criticism, the party will support you. " Raúl Castro, addressing the union of Cuban journalists, March 1980. Josefina ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

The possibility of leapfrogging telecommunication regulation

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I put Cuban telecommunication regulation in context in a previous post . The International Telecommunication Union defines four general gene...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Cuban telecommunication regulation in context

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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) publishes an annual report on " Trends in Telecommunication Reform " and in the 20...