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More than 50 major hotels and resorts across Cuba offer Wi-Fi, with hourly rates varying from $2 to $10 (U.S. currency). As of January 2016, ETECSA also offers 65 public Wi-Fi hotspots, the FCC said.
Connectify has been in Cuba since Etecsa set up those public hot spots in 2015. Although aware of the illegality, the company has embraced its product’s utility as a “popular tool for creating ...
By way of Twitter, Sanchez asked ETECSA for a response, but never received one. In Cuba, social media has become a battleground for those who are in favor or oppose the proposed Cuban constitution.
This ETECSA announcement, though, is not an isolated incident; it underscores the immense strain under which Cuba attempts to meet the basic needs of its people under the US blockade.
In some of ETECSA’s recent infographics to publicize its own effort to expand Internet access in Cuba, it uses a stylized Wi-Fi symbol that incorporates the colors of the Cuban flag.
ETECSA announced new regulations that will forbid connecting cell lines on “blacklisted” devices. Users in Cuba who already have cell phones with invalid codes should replace their phones ...
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped ...
Cuba’s underserved and largely untapped communications market is an enticing opportunity for U.S. companies. The U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments’ regulatory amendments expand upon previous ...
Google plans to bring fast internet to Cuba. On Thursday, Google signed a deal with Cuban telecoms giant ETECSA with the intention of improving internet connectivity for the island nation, which ...
Cuba has ramped up Internet connectivity in recent years, building up infrastructure and opening up dozens of Wi-Fi hotspots in cities across the country, but it’s a drop in the bucket.
Cuba´s partner in the project, French telecoms operator Orange, was in 2020 ordered by a Paris court to pay local rival Digicel compensation for anti-competitive practices in the French Caribbean ...
The headquarters of state-controlled telecom company ETECSA, located in central Havana, is the subject of one of almost 6,000 land claims between the U.S. and Cuba. (Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail) ...