INCREDIBLE !


2016-03-30 18:30 GMT+01:00 Seun Ojedeji <[log in to unmask]>:

> 900USD/mo for 70mb seem to be a dream that some parts of Africa would be
> glad to wake up to in reality ;-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Sent from my LG G4
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
> On 30 Mar 2016 18:00, "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*
>>
>> *On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:44 AM, William Drake **<
>> <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] <[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
>>> <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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