Cuba's data pirates

[tmac77]

Interesting read

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-el-paquete-internet-wifi-havana-1.3527274

[ebhead]

Very interesting...

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[brschoppe]

I remember reading about a similar system last year called Snet which basically seemed like a large scale LAN patched together.

http://www.businessinsider.com/cuban-youth-built-a-secret-internet-network-2015-1

[LLumley]

"$2 for a one-hour Wi-Fi scratch card in a city where average wages are about $20 a month."

Wow....

[Nino]

"$2 for a one-hour Wi-Fi scratch card in a city where average wages are about $20 a month."

Wow....

And while technically that Wi-Fi point could feed a 3-4 miles radius so you could go on-line from home, office or somewhere nice & dry it is officially reduced to 5-10 metres so you are forced to stand outside a hotel or in a park and share it with dozens of other people ...

[RijkdeGooier]

It's like that in Cuba.

Reminds me of the old days with shared telephone access by neighbours - a person with a phone line would rent out minutes to the neighbours.