Six months on from the euphoria that greeted full Internet access for mobile phones on the communist-run island, frustrated Cubans complain it is too expensive, too slow and crippled by government censorship. "We are hungry, hungry for information, hungry for online surfing, hungry for knowledge and intellectual freedom," summed up one user." It's not possible that the internet is a luxury in the 21st Century," said another campaigner using the hashtag #BajenLosPreciosDeInternet – "drop Internet prices" in Spanish. "Now, once they organise online, Cubans can demonstrate against animal abuse, for the rights of the LGBT community, protests like that would have been unthinkable in the past. However, Jiminez says that with the rollout of 3G, however slow, "they cannot go back" now.

Source: The Star June 11, 2019 06:33 UTC