Internet laggard Cuba plans to bring web to Havana homes by year-end

FIRST EVER: The WiFi signals will be beamed to 35 public spaces including five in Havana, Etecsa spokesman Luis Manuel Diaz Naranjo said.

HAVANA: Cuba, a few decades late to the Internet era, plans to bring the web into some households in Havana by the end of the year, the Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported. 

Communist-ruled Cuba has one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world. While the government blames cost for lack of investment in infrastructure, critics suggest the real impediment is fear of losing control of the media.