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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by elliekelly on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:57PM (#23534039)
I have no idea what it’s called but when I was in Cuba 5 or 6 years ago they used something like this on their mobile phones. They basically had an “internet” via bluetooth but without needing to connect to the “real” internet which was very expensive and monitored by the government.
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by adrianpike on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:39PM (#23534728)
SNET, it seems. Awesome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba#SNET
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by pubutil on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:24PM (#23535011)
Cuba is amazing at making the most of what they have. I hadn’t heard of SNET before this, but I know they’ve kept classic cars running for decades out of necessity
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Re:T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T phone calls are failing across... by elliekelly on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:48PM (#23535778)
I am not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that Cuba must have the highest concentration of “hackers” of any place in the world. We were on a bus going to the far west end of Cuba (where not many people travel to) and it broke down in the middle of no where and the bus driver managed to fix it with some scotch tape and a twisted up plastic shopping bag.

I’ve been to 70 countries and the Cuban people are hands down the most entrepreneurial of them all.

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