Only 5 percent of Cubans can get on the same Internet Americans do. That could soon change.

In a remarkable shift, the Obama Administration and the Castro government agreed to a series of moves aimed at opening up Cuba to real, high-speed, Internet access.

Cuba and the United States have agreed to begin allowing communications devices and telecommunications services to move between the two countries. Only about 5 percent of the Cuban population can get on the full global Internet, and only, often, through government institutions, high-end hotels, and black market access. Whether the new US-Cuba agreement means simply that it will be easier for Cubans to get online or whether they'll also be freer to move around once there remains to be seen. But perhaps nowhere on the planet has the fracturing of the global Internet been more real than it has been in Cuba. The moves signal that perhaps, with the help of the United States, that will no longer be the case.