RESTRICTED ACCESS: A Cuban talking on his mobile phone on a street in Havana. Only 3.4% of the population can connect to the Internet from home, according to UN data.
WASHINGTON: Cuba wants to boost public Internet access while keeping the Communist government’s control over it, a senior US official close to talks with Havana on technology said.
“They are looking for mechanisms by which, in the first instance, they can expand connectivity while at the same time retaining their mechanism for market management, which is obviously vastly different than ours,” said the State Department source.
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