I agree, OMG-I-AM-ONLINE, is pretty much the only good thing about it.
I&#x27;m cuban, I haven&#x27;t lived there for a few years now. My wife and her family have been able to speak using video. I have also heard stories of people have been able to <i>see</i> they loved ones after many years.
Other than that, cuban internet is horrible. I have had all kinds. I worked in a 300 employees company where our internet was 196kbs. After that I worked in another with 2 mbps, but this one had more than 4000 employees across the country, so after 5 pm the internet was awesome, not so much on office hours. I never had internet at home until I quit my job to work as freelancer, then I had to pay 60 usd for 80 hrs a month on a commuted connection, which never when above 40kbps.
All of that happened <i>after</i> 2005. And btw, that commuted connection, was because my grandmother was born in Spain, so <i>she</i> had the right to have internet, I was lucky. Other cubans need to use more irregular methods.
Today it&#x27;s not much better, yes, you can have internet on the park, but it is still very hard to actually use it to get work done. For that, you still need to leave the country.