For Cuban citizens, who are kept from easy Internet access by a government that is slow to allow for affordable service, there is a solution that is not so very different from old fashion newspaper delivery.

"El Paquete Semanal," the Weekly Package, is an Internet alternative. The service offers customers a terabyte of data that collects the latest entertainment news, along with mobile phone apps, and even a classified section, reports the BBC. Less than 5 percent of homes in Cuba have Internet access, so this weekly product is a much appreciated service.

Each week a selection of content is delivered to hundreds of distributors, who then bring the "Paquete" to the doors of its subscribers.

The service is particularly useful to a young person like Ana Lauren, a 24-year-old journalist from Havana, who says, "The Paquete Semanal is the accessible form to get videos, music, soap operas, everything. You can get whatever you want in El Paquete.

"Every Monday a young man comes here to my house with a portable hard drive and copies the Paquete to my computer," Lauren said, adding, "I can copy whatever I want. If I don't want to copy music this week I don't have to. I only copy the things and shows that I want to use this week."

For this weekly access to Internet info she pays about one or two U.S. dollars.

The popularity of Paquete has actually paved the way for the creation and growth of new media ventures that exist just for their subscribers.

Antoinette Duquesne, a journalist who writes for Vistar, one of Cuba's most read cultural publications, extols the possibilities created by Paquete, saying, "We exist on the Internet but the Paquete Semanal has such a wide range of distributors and it's sold all across the country.

"So, this is the best way for us to connect with our audience," she adds.

As reported in Al Jazeera, despite the fact that going online currently costs Cubans around a week’s pay check for just an hour, bloggers have been providing a definite forum for public debate recently.