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Decoding the Digital Cold War

By Ellery Roberts Biddle

Wanted: an infrastructure upgrade.

Among the pressing issues raised by the historic thaw in U.S.–Cuba relations is the role the Internet might play as the two nations enter a new chapter in their shared history. Cuba has one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the Western hemisphere. Just over 25 percent of Cubans are using the Internet, and only 3.4 percent1 of households have an Internet connection. With just one state-run telecommunications company, ETECSA, that tightly regulates citizens’ access to the network, and a single fiber-optic cable connecting the island to global network infrastructure, Cuba...

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