Cubans Say Prices Too High at New Internet Centers

[joshcryer]

12. Only people who can use the cafes are those with exiled Cubans in Miami.

They send money back to Cuba so Cuba has a three class system. Those without relatives abroad to send them money (mostly black Cubans), those with relatives abroad who send them money, and the status quote elites who run the country.

Getting internet across the island would be very easily facilitated with wireless bridges.

Millions of Cubans are already on the Cuban intranet (a network of computers that can interface each other but not the internet at large). If the system was even remotely robust you could put a bridge on it and all those millions of Cubans would have instant internet access. Mika tells me the infrastructure isn't able to be adapted that easily. If that's the case then it's quite archaic.