Today they have made my day, I have found out via Android Central that Google has allowed residents in Cuba to access Google Play y Google Analytics, but yes, only to the free options.
The visit of Eric Schmidt a few months ago this country has brought its fruits. Schmidt's goal, as announced, was to exchange views with members of the Government about Internet access on the island, although he also met with other people. After his return, he published an interesting article about his experience on his Google+ profile, where, among other things, he highlighted the great delay that Cuba has with respect to other countries in terms of connectivity, technology and others.
The first obvious change after this visit was that they allowed Cubans to download Google Chrome From its official website, however, I find it curious that although we can access Google Play, we still cannot download extensions for this browser, not even the free ones.
Google Play and Google Analytics available for Cuba but ...
And that is the detail, Google Play and Google Analytics are available for Cuba but only their free content. The embargo imposed by the United States prevents Google from carrying out commercial actions with Cubans, so payment applications are discarded.
But as we say around here: On a gift horse, you can't look at his tusk. In the end, there are very few Cubans who, using non-traditional ways, or VPN, can obtain payment applications from Google Play. The catalog is not extensive, but something is something.
Right now, I would only ask for two more services, first to be able to access the Google Chrome / Chromium extensions, and second, the much-desired Code Google, where a lot of interesting projects are hosted that obviously we cannot access.
Source: Google+
Very good news, one step ahead. We hope that the internal lock will improve and allow national users to access these new options.
To make sure they understand better, some perspective: currently for the population it is only possible to access the Internet from the navigation rooms, at a price of $ 4.50 CUC per hour, they were talking about putting internet through 3G but if the networks are already sweating with A simple mail service (which by the way costs 1 CUC for each mb consumed) imagine with the Internet, it is not an option.
Nothing that in terms of connectivity to this you have to throw hardware and well thought out architecture, you can not continue loading the mule until it falls.
Every process must be done step by step, planning, testing and then moving on to development. What I see very badly is that in our beautiful island of Cuba it is not known what the plan is, or if there is one.
If the problem is infrastructure, then you must invest in a specific area. For example: The Cuban capital moves a lot of money, this is where the investment for new telephony towers that support 3G / 4G / LTE should begin and improve the transmission of data and voice. It will take some time to recover the investment money, but it will lay the groundwork for other cities and territories in the country.
As for the prices of current services, just to say that they are ridiculous and totally out of reach of the people.
Ok .. but let's not make this a political or economic debate, or anything like that.
Sorry elav, for leaving the topic.
Without a doubt it is excellent news. Eric Schmidt's visit has paid off, and I look forward to much more.
Na, calm down, it only alerted because if we start talking about those issues .. never to end ..
However, it is all a paradox, from where I can only access the Internet is from my workstation and I do not have access to https://accounts.google.com. It's no longer Google's fault, so how do we fit?
If Cuba did not have a blockade, the story would be different ...
But it is good news!
Excuse the question, but; Why don't they use a routing system in the network that ensures user anonymity? Projects such as tor browser have set precedents in this matter, such is the case of users in China who have managed to access google, twitter, Facebook services among others, which are blocked in that country. Perhaps I do not know something fundamental (I am not a computer scientist) that prevents the objective from being met, and I highly doubt that people as capable as the companions of sister Cuba have not considered the use of an alternative method to access these services. Greetings.
tor is very slow and the internet speed in cuba is not very fast
i guess that's why
Because the few of us who have at least a regular internet at work have rules of use, do not think that this is about arriving and putting Tor to full of a just because, and total that in the end with the access that I have I am already quite satisfied , speed on the other hand is another issue ...
It's difficult to explain the situation, I remember on reddit once I tried and they always gave me obvious solutions for them "why don't you use a vpn?" .. and I ... damn, not even that ... T_T
Sad situation in Cuba, hopefully soon you can enjoy all the services that the world offers to semi-free internet users. Because let's be frank, the internet is not free, but the connection and the freedom of connection always have a price…. even if it's not money.
Great news:
For Android users we can now access thousands of free applications and also developers can officially upload their projects from Cuba.
But something as basic as knowledge is still blocked https://developers.google.com/ we can't even read the news.
But I agree with @elav del lobo a hair ... it's good to see that Schmid's efforts are paying off.
Well upstairs, don't cool me down: start adding GATC to your websites and be happy.
OT: Go Ernesto, what do you think? http://i.imgur.com/F1zvKeo.jpg, that you are a hater of systemd, 😀
Google analytics has been criticized many times by the FSF ...
Read what Julian Assange says of Smiths about espionage and you will see what Google's intentions are.
Well, I have not been able to specify the possibility of making myself a Page in GOOGLE PLUS using my profile on that social network.
My country, Cuba, simply does not appear within the list of countries available for this, which prevents me from specifying my geographical address and thus continuing the corresponding process.
Simply frustrating and totally humiliating for so many serious, enterprising and respectful Cubans like me.
"But as we say around here: A gift horse, you don't look at its tusk"
What a putrid comment.