Each time that Cuba seeks to add a new channel to the Internet, the American counterpart must obtain the appropriate of the United States Treasury Department license. Similarly, if an American company wants to open a new channel to Cuba or decide to increase the speed of the connection, a license must be issued. The current Cuban connection to the so-called network of networks does not provide adequate bandwidth to meet the demand of the country. The blockade forces Cuba to use a bandwidth and connection to the expensive and slow satellite.The problem could be solved if you connect a fiber optic cable between Cuba and the State of Florida, but U.S. authorities have not allowed it. Mirages of Internet access to the Internet is well far from being a benefit to large majorities: the 90 per cent of the world’s population does not have access to the Internet. More than the 70 percent of those connected live in developed countries.
In Africa, less than one percent of the population has Internet access. More than half of the connected are South Africans. The lack of telephone lines of electricity joins. In Ghana, only 20 percent of households have electricity; in Namibia, 5 per cent; in Senegal, 2.3 percent; and in Mozambique, 0.4 percent, according to figures from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Internet access is a luxury in Central America. In Guatemala it has access the 0.6 per cent of the population; in El Salvador, 0.7%; in Nicaragua, the 0.04; and in Honduras, 0.03 percent. Even in large and populous Nations of the third world are very few people that can access the Internet: in Mexico, 4.6 percent of the population; in India, 1.6 percent; and in Indonesia, 1.8 percent. In Russia, formerly power, only 4.2 per cent of citizens access to the Internet. Statistics international show that the most popular sites on the Internet are the pornographic and on-line games.