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The things we take for granted…

If there is one thing blogging pundits have in common, it’s that we love to look in the face of the future and guess what expression it will make. However wonderful the 2.0 world might be, though, it’s easy to forget there are people out there who don’t even live in the 1.0 world yet. Sad but true: some places are slow to move on from 0.0:

President Raul Castro announced today that the Cuban government will allow unrestricted use of mobile telephones by all Cubans for the first time. Cuba currently has the lowest rate of cellular telephone use in Latin America.

A few Cubans have mobile phone service through foreigners or in their work places. Now the masses will be able to place a phone in their individual names’. According to the Communist Party newspaper Granma, the Cuban telecommunications monopoly ETECSA will begin mobile service for the general public in the next few days. “ – via MobileCrunch

Ponder that for a moment. And consider yourself lucky if you can see the irony of that press release.

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