Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Plans To Help Cuba Upgrade It Internet
Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is proposing to upgrade Cuba’s Internet access, and executives traveled to the island nation this past weekend as a part of that effort, according to the US State Department.
“We don’t know what they’ve proposed, but we do know they’ve proposed something,” the State Department official said.
The search-engine giant made its proposal to the Cuban government.
The plan comes after US President Barack Hussein Obama’s December announcement of a thaw in relations and the recent pledge by Raúl Castro’s government to bring Internet access to all Cubans by Y 2020.
Brett Perlmutter, a New York-based Google executive, is a member of the company’s Ideas division that works to help solve some of the world’s largest technology problems.
Mr. Perlmutter will spend 5 days in Havana with about a dozen other US business representatives and “will focus on helping the Cuban government think through their publicly-stated goal of improving Internet access,” a Google representative said.
Google, based in Menlo Park, CA., declined to disclose its other efforts in Cuba. The trip was organized by the Council of the Americas, a trade group founded a by David Rockefeller about 50 yrs ago.
About 5% of Cuba’s population has Internet access, and very few have cellphone service.
US State Department officials said other technology companies have shown interest in working to upgrade the island’s 2G wireless coverage.
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