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Cuba woke up this Thursday to a widespread internet service outage across the entire national territory, with all its provinces recording speeds below 2 Mbps, according to collaborative data published by the independent media elTOQUE.
A thematic map by province reveals that the situation is particularly critical in the western part of the country: Havana and the western provinces show speeds below 1 Mbps.
The central and eastern regions range between 1 and 2 Mbps. No province even reaches 2 Mbps, and there are no areas with speeds between 2 and 5 Mbps or above 5 Mbps.
"The data shows a widespread decline in service across the entire national territory. All provinces in the country are currently reporting speeds below 2 Mbps," the report states, reflecting a situation that has become recurrent on the island.
According to Cuba, it ranked 153rd in the global internet speed ranking, making it one of the countries with the lowest internet speeds in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The degradation of service is not an isolated phenomenon. In March 2026, following the sixth total blackout in a year and a half, a 65% drop in internet traffic in Cuba was recorded, highlighting the close relationship between the energy crisis and connectivity.
The restoration of the electrical system after the blackout on March 16 took 29 hours, a process that has direct consequences on telecommunications, as power outages leave mobile radio bases without service throughout the country.
The situation is worsened by the fact that the electricity deficits in Cuba continued to hover around 1,900 MW, a figure that undermines not only domestic supply but also the telecommunications infrastructure that supports internet access across the island.
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