Internet Cuba

In terms of new information technologies, the Cuban government, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, were able to increase the level with which it had adapted to new technologies.  With the aim of teaching and the production and handling in banks, shops and industries have created software quality which is quite acceptable.   There is multimedia in schools at all levels in almost all subjects, as well as programs to create and manage information and streamline the old and cumbersome manual work.
Until now, internet access is via satellite, which is costly and takes time.  For example, Cuba can only download 65 megabits per second and upload 124 megabits per second.  The fact that the island needs this satellite connection is mainly due to the U.S. embargo against Cuba that prevents you from obtaining the internet through fiber optic cables like in other countries, jeopardizing access for international organizations such as IFLA,   Amnesty International, Freedom House, Reporters Without Fronteras or Open Net Initiative.
In Cuba there is a very limited number of 190,000 internet users.  Most of these internet users are doctors, with the provider being the Ministry of Public Health and most sites have access only to the local domain (. Cu) and sites of other topics usually associated with medicine and research uses. Cuba has 1351 registered domains (. Cu) and 2500 sites, of which 135 belong to the media. There are some providers that offer internet connections to foreign residents on the island.

Recently, the government of Raul Castro has lifted restrictions on citizens’s communications and has allowed the possession of computers, DVDs, and cellular phones.   The Cuban government signed an agreement with Venezuela to produce a submarine fiber cable view from La Guaira to allow Cuba and others (Jamaica, Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago) to have high-speed internet by 2010.   In July 2008, the U.S. government, through its Interests Office in Havana, said Cuba offered the possibility to connect to the Internet through its companies.   The economic embargo on Cuba prohibits access to submarine cable which passes only 32 kilometers away from the boardwalk.