Internet for the Cuban Opposition is Possible

Internet for the Cuban Opposition is Possible / Yusnaby Perez
Posted on April 15, 2013

phone googleMany wonder and don't understand: How can I have internet on
my Smartphone? Others don't even believe I'm in Cuba. But hey, in the
last two months I've been researching an effective method to provide
internet to the opposition within the island with funding from abroad.
And I found it! I proved it! It works!

Cubacel has the technology necessary to provide internet services. They
don't have 4G, nor even 3G, but the GPRS works perfectly. For those who
aren't familiar with it, GPRS is the service that provides internet to
cellphones with a data plan. Of course, in Cuba it's blocked for
national customers and only works on cellphones with service through
foreign companies using "roaming" in Cuba. Normally, the data plans
abroad are very expensive: But they work in Cuba!

At present, many of the opponents get their cellphones recharged so they
can tweet "blindly," which costs 1 CUC (roughly $1 U.S.) for every
tweet. Here I recommend to them this alternative.

All someone needs to do is get a contract in Spain with the company
Movistar and active the data plan for abroad. There are two options. The
most economical costs 50 € a month for 150Mb. Then someone sends the SIM
card to the opponent on the island and they will have up to 150Mb to
interact with the network for a whole month, live, anywhere there is
coverage by the Cuban phone company ETECSA. 150 megabytes isn't much,
but it's enough to have instant communications with Twitter and to
report, with images, what is happening in the country.

For more information here is the link to movistar:
http://www.movistar.es/particulares/movil/viajar-al-extranjero-roaming/

This connection path is undetectable and cannot be blocked by the Cuban
government, as the service comes through Movistar. There are other plans
of 500Mb a month that would be great, but the cost is higher: 140 € / month.

So here I leave you this open door that today allows me, thanks to my
brother in Spain, to tweet #EnVivo — Live — from the Island.

13 April 2013

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