That's romanticising the situation. The Cuban LANs don't span across cities and the speeds are quite bad (~2 MB/s on a good day) because of overcrowded wireless links.
They do have the 'paquete semanal', which is a hard drive that's distributed weekly and contains terabytes of fresh pirates material. That is much much faster and the way most Cubans get software and media.
That's romanticising the situation. The Cuban LANs don't span across cities and the speeds are quite bad (~2 MB/s on a good day) because of overcrowded wireless links.
They do have the 'paquete semanal', which is a hard drive that's distributed weekly and contains terabytes of fresh pirates material. That is much much faster and the way most Cubans get software and media.
I was thinking about Iraq too, there's apparently something similar there that's way faster than the metered 2G link a lot of people rely on.