Cuba
Country Profile: Cuba
Internet in Cuba
In October 1996 Cuba first connected full time to the Internet, and in 1998 Cuba had only a single 64-Kbps satellite connection run by Sprint in Florida and allowed by an exception for communications to the U.S. trade embargo.Patrick Symmes,...
- Posted on 09/May/2007; tagged in Cuba, Latin America
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Afghanistan, Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Copyright, Cuba, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, India, Indonesia, IP blocking, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latin America, Lebanon, Legislation, Mexico, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Nigeria, ONI, Pakistan, Political filtering, Rwanda, Social filtering, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Take-down, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, United States/Canada, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
ONI Blog: Cuba and Venezuela connect through socialism, fiber optic cable
Telecommunications workers began sounding tests along Cuba’s southeastern coastline last week, marking the first phase of plans to lay a submarine fiber optic cable connecting Venezuela, Cuba, and Jamaica.
If successful, Cuban news site Cubadebate reports that the cable’s 640 gigabytes would...
ONI Blog: Cuban official defends Internet restrictions, blames U.S. for low number of Internet users
On Monday, Feb. 12, Cuban Communications Minister Ramiro Valdes spoke in defense of Internet restrictions and blamed the U.S. embargo for the low number of Internet users in the country. Reporters Without Borders has issued a statement disputing the...
- Posted on 14/Feb/2007; tagged in Cuba, Latin America
