At the end of last January and the beginning of February, the news circulated, even in official media, that internet tests would be carried out in two Popular Councils in Old Havana.
The Web Cubadebate published an enthusiastic article titled “ETECSA announces pilot tests to bring internet to homes.”
In said article, which later other media echoed and even reached press agencies, It was announced that ETECSA would begin pilot testing "soon."
The pilot test would be "in order to begin, in the future, to bring internet to homes" as reported at that time by specialist Odalys Rodríguez del Toro (director of the Havana Division of ETECSA).
He advanced that These connections would be through fiber optics "thanks to an agreement with the Chinese company Huawei", and that at the time, the rates for the service would be reported.
Since then, little had been heard about the subject ―in the Island's media or not― until a publication today, in the forum section of the website of the Ministry of Communications of Cuba, has confirmed that these tests are already being carried out in Old Havana, although they have not gone into details of any kind about their progress.
Questioned on two occasions, the moderator of this official forum answered that these tests are already being carried out and that, once they are completed, information would be provided on the steps to follow.
This news comes on a day when we have also learned that Havana's boardwalk will have Wi-Fi access, expectedly before the end of 2016. However, one still wonders why everything is so slow.
We just hope that sometime the words that preside the website of the Ministry of Communications of Cuba become a reality: "Communications at the service of Society".
What do you think?
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