Here's what internet is like in Cuba

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People sit near a Wi-Fi hotspot in a square at Havana, Cuba March 19, 2016.REUTERS/Ivan AlvaradoIt's not exactly a secret that Cuba has notoriously bad internet.

These internet purveyors buy internet cards, use the internet to set up a personal network, and then sell to as many people as possible for $1 each.

In mid-December, Google and Cuba signed a deal to allow the company to speed internet access on the island by installing local servers that will store much of Google's content.

The move could make accessing Google services like Gmail and YouTube 10 times faster, but will do little to expand internet access to more Cubans.

"Cuba wants to go from a model that basically doesn't need censorship on the internet because there practically is no internet" to using internet to control the population, Henken told The Verge.

A fiber-optic cable from Venezuela to Cuba was built by French-Chinese telecom provider Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell several years ago to improve internet access.

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