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Netflix Inc., the leading Internet film and TV subscription service, will offer a broad range of great global entertainment to Cuban consumers as Internet access improves and credit and debit cards become more widely available. Starting today, people in Cuba with Internet connections and access to international payment methods will be able to subscribe to Netflix and instantly watch a curated selection of popular movies and TV shows.

Among the premium and unique Netflix series available will be the Golden Globe® and Emmy® Award-winning series House of Cards and Orange is the New Black; the global adventure Marco Polo, great kids shows like DreamWorks Animation’s All Hail King Julien and The Adventures of Puss in Boots and Academy Award-nominated original documentaries including Virunga and The Square. Netflix will also offer a wide range of films, series and kids programming, as it does throughout Latin America.
 
There is going to be a lot of money from the IT sector being funneled into Cuba in the next 5 years.

Internet, Cell, Satellite, and Personal Computing. They have 50 years to catch up on.

The thing is though, would you be willing to relocate to Cuba to work and to bring the country up to speed with over 50 years worth of technology infrastructure changes to be done?

I would just to get away from all of this damn snow...
 
I wonder how much of the TWENTY DOLLARS A MONTH average income in Cuba will Netflix cost? :rolleyes:
 
Jutsu said:
There is going to be a lot of money from the IT sector being funneled into Cuba in the next 5 years.

Internet, Cell, Satellite, and Personal Computing. They have 50 years to catch up on.

The thing is though, would you be willing to relocate to Cuba to work and to bring the country up to speed with over 50 years worth of technology infrastructure changes to be done?

I would just to get away from all of this damn snow...
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In many ways it should be easier to bring Cuba up to date then it is in many areas of the US simply because they are so far behind that you would have no choice but to start from scratch where in an area that is mostly upto date you would be pushed to use existing systems as much as possible.
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
In many ways it should be easier to bring Cuba up to date then it is in many areas of the US simply because they are so far behind that you would have no choice but to start from scratch where in an area that is mostly upto date you would be pushed to use existing systems as much as possible.
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Exactly. Much like Japan rebuilding their infrastructure after WW2 and proceeding to dominate us in manufacturing, I expect Cuba to have gigabit fiber right off the bat.
 
I think people are underestimating how much change needs to happen in Cuba still.
only about 25% of Cubans have internet connections, mostly through phones supplied by relatives outside of the country. And unless you are a Doctor, the elite or work the black market, you only make $19 a month (the maximum wage in Cuba). Cuban internet access is also among the most censored in the world.

The US becoming more friendly to Cuba really isn't going to change most of this.
 
I do not get why everyone has to chime in saying, but they wont have enough money for this or that...
OF COURSE MOST WONT.
This just happened, change for the Cuban people was never going to happen overnight.
Sure most of them cannot afford this now but the fact remains that the service even being in Cuba is a good thing.
As a Cuban I am happy to see that my people are gaining options and choices.I am happy that I can now visit my cultural home that I was never able to go to before. Just recently I had relatives that came to the US since this all happened. It was amazing and it goes to show the benefits of these new policies for us and them.
 
{NG}Fidel said:
I do not get why everyone has to chime in saying, but they wont have enough money for this or that...
OF COURSE MOST WONT.
This just happened, change for the Cuban people was never going to happen overnight.
Sure most of them cannot afford this now but the fact remains that the service even being in Cuba is a good thing.
As a Cuban I am happy to see that my people are gaining options and choices.I am happy that I can now visit my cultural home that I was never able to go to before. Just recently I had relatives that came to the US since this all happened. It was amazing and it goes to show the benefits of these new policies for us and them.
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My point was more than just the money. Even if 100% of households had internet access there is still the matter of censorship . I just find it interesting how many people seem to think that Cuba is suddenly become high tech because of the US easing the embargo. People forget that Cuba has had access to the West all along. Better relations aren't going to suddenly change that. It's still mostly about their internal policies and Cuba easing its restrictive access to the internet.
 
Jutsu said:
There is going to be a lot of money from the IT sector being funneled into Cuba in the next 5 years.

Internet, Cell, Satellite, and Personal Computing. They have 50 years to catch up on.

The thing is though, would you be willing to relocate to Cuba to work and to bring the country up to speed with over 50 years worth of technology infrastructure changes to be done?

I would just to get away from all of this damn snow...
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Where is this capital coming from? I certainly hope not US taxpayers. Not a dime should go to support this regime.
 
griffinhart said:
I think people are underestimating how much change needs to happen in Cuba still.
only about 25% of Cubans have internet connections, mostly through phones supplied by relatives outside of the country. And unless you are a Doctor, the elite or work the black market, you only make $19 a month (the maximum wage in Cuba). Cuban internet access is also among the most censored in the world.

The US becoming more friendly to Cuba really isn't going to change most of this.
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Not overnight no, but if we fully normalize relations with Cuba I think the changes over the years to come would be amazing. Yes Cuba has had access to many countries over the previous years, but as with many things the US is the market the world wants.

Ironically, I think the embargo has been a large part of what has kept Castro in power for so long, as it gave him an "enemy" 90 miles from their shores to blame everything on.

It's amazing that during the heights of the cold war we were feeding the Soviet Union, who we thought might nuke us at any minute, but we wouldn't even talk to a country 90 miles from our shore.


fdiaz78 said:
Where is this capital coming from? I certainly hope not US taxpayers. Not a dime should go to support this regime.
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It will come from companies and private investors.

Do you care how many US tax dollars were "invested" in underminding Castro over the last 50 years, with zero return on that investment?

It's also worth pointing out, that if Cuba had a fleet of combat drones, and decided to wage a war on terror, as we are, their targets would in in Southern Florida and Washington DC.
 
One last thing, we need to remember that ironically it was the US knowingly drove Castro into the arms of the Soviet Union so it would be easier to paint Cuba as an agressive enemy that needed to be dealt with.

This was despite the fact that Cuba did not respond in kind to a US funded and managed terrorist campaign in Cuba, and in fact instead Cuba complain to the UN.

It's also worth remembering that the US military and government actually drew up plans to stage false flag terrorist attacks in the US that would then be blamed on Cuba to justify an invasion on the island.

It's amazing that so many seem to think that we, the USA is the aggrieved party when if fact Cuba has done nothing against the US, but during the last 50 years the US based campaign of terror against Cuba (initially fully supported by the US government but when support was pulled we just ignored it) has killed considerably more Cuban citizens than US citizens and residents died during the attacks on September 11th.
 
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