Obama bigs up His Man in Havana: Google

President Obama has promised to bring internet access to Cuba – by pre-announcing a deal best-pal Google has struck with the island. On the first day of an historic trip – the last US president to visit the nearby state of Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928 – Obama flagged up the Wi-Fi and broadband deal, seemingly catching the …

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Hmm. Maybe he just skimmed the memo?

[JimmyPage]

"Veep" is a documentary ...

[DanielsLateToTheParty]

History is written by the victor

It's telling that the fall of communism was iconified by a McDonalds in Moscow. Now there is a Wi-Fi hotspot in Havana. Has Google really become the face of capitalism? Or it's crown?

[Anonymous Coward]

First!!

I'm the first one to suggest that this deal wouldn't be happening if the NSA wasn't getting a backhaul of everything on this new network. :)

(Don't feel bad GCHQ. I'm sure the NSA is mirroring everything to you after it gets to Fort Meade.)

[Mark 85]

Nothing like spilling the beans on a quiet or backroom conversation, then. I would have thought that Google would have been the ones to announce this or at the least, not seem surprised or maybe even a joint announcement. The way this was done gives it a bit of a sleazy edge to it.

I really don't believe some the stuff I'm seeing being pulled by the government lately. This is just one them.