Monopoly.
On Wednesday, March 30, 2016, Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Google has supplied equipment for the studio of Cuban artist Alexis Leiva
Machado (kown as "Kcho") in barrio Romerillo, in Havana. The facility is
reported to have a 70mps link and supports free access for about 40 users,
although users report spotty actual access. Kcho is well connected to the
Cuban government and reputedly is paying the $US 900/mo access cost, this
in a country where the average salary is about $20/month, and paid access
is $2/hour. This is probably more a symbolic effort than a real opening in
Cuba for either Cuban access or Google's presence. The Cuban phone company
roll out of hotspots in community locations, and an eventual reduction in
access costs are where change will take place. The University of Havana
wi-fi effort is intended to extend (paid) access to the neighborhoods
surrounding the multiple UofH campuses in Havana. It is hard to tell when
cell and internet access will be open to competition as in Myanmar, since
that is where access will explode and costs will fall.
>
> Sam L.
>
> On 30/03/2016 10:29 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
> Yesterday I
> browsed a bunch of YouTube vids of the Stones concert in Havana. Plenty
of smartphones in evidence.
> j
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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:44 AM, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> FWIW I had lunch with Vint Cerf at Google in DC the other day and he’d
just returned from a week in Cuba, where Google’s been invited to play a
notable role in broadening out access
http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-and-obama-administration-connect-over-cuba-1458763836.
He said the Cubans actually have some pretty decent technology in place
already, much of it Chinese but also some home grown stuff. So they’re
playing off companies from different countries against each other for
contracts, kind of the new nonaligned movement.
>>
>> I suspect many US companies expecting to cut deals quickly will
disappointed, as there’s growing reports of the government imposing delays
and backtracking on agreements as part of an effort to push US businesses
into the ‘end the embargo’ camp in US congressional politics. Not a
surprising strategy, hope it works. US businesses, especially the tech
sector, have become an important force in stopping discriminatory state
policies, maybe they’ll emerge as the key here as well.
>>
>> Bill
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>
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