Mobile Internet: Cuba’s new revolution


A Cuban delivery man from "Mandao", a food and product delivery service, manages delivery requests through his cell phone in Havana, Cuba, — AFP

Since arriving in Cuba just two years ago, mobile internet has revolutionised life here -- helping people find food, fuel and even medicine amid crippling shortages, and helping them organise protests in a country where waving a placard can land you in deep trouble.

Many in the Americas' only communist-ruled state now wonder how they ever lived without it.

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