Universities will connect fiber optic Cuba

The situation with the Internet on the "island of freedom" is not too good, though, and changing for the better. A few years ago, the Internet was only available for the tourists. Now the authorities have gradually soften the conditions of access for local residents - inhibitions as before, there is no longer any.

Moreover, there are access points at several locations. Even more plan to add soon. However, access costs $ 4 per hour, on average, is more than can afford the average local. Recently, the Ministry of Higher Education of Cuba announced that from January 2016 the universities of the island will be linked fiber.




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Already we have fiber between Bayamo and Siboney, between Granma and Manzanillo. And should pave the optics between Pinar del Rio and satellite earth station (and there are such in Cuba) in Havana.

At the same time universities have asked to increase the bandwidth in order to provide access to the Internet both for themselves and for students. They will be installed access points on campus, so that now the Cuban university students will be able to take up the life of the network.

In addition to students, actively pursued and implementation of Internet technologies into everyday life of ordinary people. Over the past few years, the government opened several dozen Internet cafes, introduced the work of the national postal service, which is available for a million or so local users of mobile devices. Thus, the Cuban government is not in word but in deed confirms its intention to provide access to the Internet for their residents. According to the plan, by 2020, Cuba is going to provide access to the network half of households.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/252916/