Cubans have become resourceful in keeping up with Internet technology, even as government censorship has made the simple data-sharing used around the world a difficult proposition, The Guardian reports.

Many eagerly await each week the arrival of the "Paquet Semanal," a service that allows download sharing of vital information from the outside world, delivered via people working as tech mules who service the communist nation's "offline "Internet."

The mules carry external hard drives as they walk about Havana, stopping in the homes of "information peddlers" who download to those drives a "terabyte-sized package of global films, TV dramas, comedies, magazines, applications and anti-virus software" via a USB cable, the Guardian, a British newspaper, said.

After it's all complete, a mule might travel to her boss, who takes the information and distributes it to customers who pay for it, many in turn selling their own information to others, the Guardian said.

The paper said that Cuba's Internet penetration rate is just 5 percent, making it one of the lowest in the world for an island of 11 million residents.

While access is now largely covert, technological access may change, however, as the U.S. and Cuban government move to normalize relations.

Under the new accord, the U.S. hopes to send better technology to Cuba — if Raul Castro's regime will approve it, opening doors to trade and other business propositions that can move Cuba into the modern world, MIT Technology Review reported.

Affordable access to the Internet would "transform daily life in Cuba," the Review noted, even as it remains unclear how open Castro will allow the door of emerging technology to swing.

"Castro has not committed to anything other than the prisoner swap and allowing a U.S. embassy on the island," MIT visiting professor Coco Fusco, who studies Cuba's blogosphere, told the Review. "No concrete promises have been made. We have to wait and see what the Cuban government actually decides to allow."

With technology and an end to the U.S.'s embargo on exports, more U.S. businesses will eagerly embrace expansion in Cuba, The Associated Press reported.

They must first be patient, the AP said, as laws and regulations are changed and as Cuba creates a more hospitable environment for foreign investors.

"It's a totally untapped market," Seth Kaplowitz, a lawyer and lecturer in finance at San Diego State University, told the AP of Cuba's business potential.

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