It's been four months since Cuban officials stood on the shores of the island's south coast and hailed the arrival of a new undersea fiber-optic link to Venezuela, calling it a new blow to US imperialism, according to global post.
The cable is due to go online this summer and, once Cuban authorities finally turn on the juice, bandwidth capacity for the least-connected country in the hemisphere will leap by a factor of 3,000.
For an island where a mere 3 percent of the population has web access and millions of adults and teenagers have never been online, the cable has the potential to jolt Cuba out of the data dark ages and rattle a society where the newspaper ink and airwaves all belong to the state.
Cuban authorities have been dampening expectations of instant mass web access since last autumn, announcing that priority will be go to universities and other public institutions, rather than private individuals.
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