Google Suggests That Cuba Jump Directly to Mobile Connections

Google Suggests That Cuba Jump Directly to Mobile Connections / 14ymedio
Posted on June 16, 2015

Google suggests that Cuba jump directly to mobile phones and tablets
without passing through the stage of wired connections, according to
comments made this Monday by a representative of the firm to OnCuba.

Two Google directors, Brett Perlmutter, of Google Ideas, and Brehanna
Zwart, of Google Access & Energy, traveled to Havana in a business
delegation just days after the Cuban government's strategy to connect at
least 50% of the households in the Island to the Internet by 2020 was
leaked.

"Cuba has a great opportunity to jump right into mobile infrastructure
without going all the way through hardwiring, as African countries are
doing," Perlmutter told OnCuba.

Company representatives would not confirm to the magazine if Google
presented a proposal to the Cuban government to participate in the
infrastructure, as several US publications reported last weekend.

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