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<div>900USD/mo for 70mb would be a dream for many parts of Europe in fact.</div>
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<div>-James</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>NCSG-Discuss <<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>> on behalf of Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@GMAIL.COM">seun.ojedeji@GMAIL.COM</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@GMAIL.COM">seun.ojedeji@GMAIL.COM</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday 30 March 2016 at 6:30 p.m.<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>" <<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: US dialogue w/ Europe and views on internet access in Cuba<br>
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<p dir="ltr">900USD/mo for 70mb seem to be a dream that some parts of Africa would be glad to wake up to in reality ;-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my LG G4<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 Mar 2016 18:00, "Sam Lanfranco" <<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div>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.
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<small><i>On 30/03/2016 10:29 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:</i><i><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><small><i> browsed a bunch of YouTube vids of the Stones concert in Havana. Plenty of smartphones in evidence.</i></small></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><small><i>On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:44 AM, William Drake
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<small><i>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
</i><i><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-and-obama-administration-connect-over-cuba-1458763836" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-and-obama-administration-connect-over-cuba-1458763836</a></i><i>. 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><i><br>
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</i><i>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.</i><i><br>
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