Public Wifi comes to Cuba

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Jim deMaine

From The Guardian: “In 2016, Etecsa – the only telephone company in Cuba – installed wifi routers in 18 public parks across the country. For many Cubans, this meant they were able to go online for the first time. This portrait of one wifi park in Havana shows how it has become a new kind of meeting place: every day crowds of people with smartphones, tablets and chairs turn up to cluster together around the wifi antennas, to a soundtrack of shouts of ‘conectifai!” meaning ‘connection’. In the meantime, a very Cuban type of commerce is also flourishing, with vendors selling internet cards, drinks and snacks, and shouting slogans such as ‘Pork crackling with wifi!’ Here, everyone has an opportunity to contact loved ones, explore social media, upload photos and find internet dates – very normal activities that reveal a rapidly changing Cuba.”

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1 Response to Public Wifi comes to Cuba

  1. chantehargrove says:
    March 9, 2018 at 6:57 PM

    JAJA Creo que el WIFI_HOGAR es mucho mejor y mas barato :), ( cuando digo: WIFI HOGAR ) me refiero a las personas que se dedican a cojer y repetir la WIFI_ETECSA, con equipos profesionales y a máxima potencia, cojes el nauta igual, cuesta 10cuc al mes, y cojes la internet cuando otro usuario ponga tambien, ya que la red es compartida, este nauta hogar, es algo de mal gusto, ya que 30cuc al mes, es el salario casi máximo de los cubanos, y creen que lo van a cojer para Nauta Hogar??? si 30cuc no da ni para comer al mes, de verdad ETECSA??? uff que pesima idea y que precios tan estupidos y abusibos, rabia es lo que da, que deberia de hacer ETECSA??? facil, cojer colocar equipos Nanostation en sus torres, a una buena altura, y a su maxima potencia, y cada 5 o 10 metros montar puntos WIFI, con estos equipos, y veran como todos cojen su wifi desde su casa, pero se que esto es imposible, de hecho, nunca lo van a hacer, ya que los espacios WIFI de ETECSA, son solo para parques, y sus antenas estan configuradas de una forma muy pero muy friamente calculada, de tal manera que la señal este por el piso, la potencia esta en el minimo, todo pensado para que solo te conectes desde ese parque, ya que si vas con un mobil y pasas 3 cuadras, jaja la señal se pierde, creo que la solución para la Internet en Cuba, es la itervención de otras grandes compañias, jj que le hagan competencia a ETECSA ( cosa que no creo que pase ) pero soñar no cuesta nada verdad?.

    English translation per Microsoft: “HAHA I think the WIFI_HOGAR is much better and cheaper:), (when I say: WIFI home) I refer to people who are engaged in take and repeat the WIFI_ETECSA, with professional equipment and maximum power, cojes equal nauta, costs 10cuc per month , and cojes the internet when another user too, since the network is shared, this nauta home, is something tasteless, 30cuc per month, is nearly maximum salary of the Cuban people, and they believe that they will take to Nauta home? If 30cuc does not give nor to eat a month, of ETECSA truth? Uff that dreadful idea and prices so stupid and abusibos, rage is what gives, that should make ETECSA? easy, take place Nanostation teams in their towers, to a good height, and its maximum power, and every 5 or 10 meters mount points WIFI, with these machines, and you will see as all cojen your wifi from home, but is that this is impossible, in fact they will never do, since spaces WIFI of ETECSA, are only for parks, and their antennae are configured in a way very but very coldly calculated, so that this signal on the floor, power in the minimum, all designed to make you log only of sde that Park, since if you go with a mobile and go 3 blocks, haha the signal is lost, I think that the solution for the Internet in Cuba, is the itervencion of other big companies, jj that make competition to ETECSA (which I do not think to pass) but dreaming does not cost anything really? .”

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