Great news, web junkies. Google have signed an agreement in Havana with Cuban Telecommunications Company ETECSA, to allow the island access to the service of Google Global Cache (GGC). What does that means? Internet may be faster in Cuba.
Say whaaaaaaat?
You read it. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, signed the deal with ETECSA’s president Mayra Averich, which will let Cuban users to shorten the access time to Internet content provided by the technology giant, while getting better and faster service.
This legal instrument make us also dream with the optimization of ETECSA's international network capabilities in the local delivery of content that demands greater bandwidth, such as YouTube, Gmail, Blogger and Google Plus.
According to a note issued by Google, Cuban users with Internet access will be able to use their services optimally in terms of quality and reducing content delays.
Google company authorized access to the Google Chrome browser back in 2014, as well as the Play Store to install free applications and games, and a free version of Google Analytics, statistics service of web pages. A couple of months ago it was announced the authorization of Cuban users to access the Chrome Web Store, a provider of extensions, themes and free applications.
Right now, get online is very expensive and the connection speed is slower than a lazy turtle. But things are kinda starting to change, for better… The Associated Press reported that Google inked a deal with the Cuba to place servers on the island, which will be used to serve the post popular Google content.
The United States still lacks direct data access to the island. As a result, if a data packet was to travel from a server in Mountain View to a user in Cuba, it would have to be routed via Venezuela. Deploying servers on Cuban territory will speed up the surfing in the Web, and the access to Google services such as YouTube or Gmail could be up to 10 times faster for users inside Cuba.
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