President Barack Obama’s historical visit to Cuba this week is bringing attention to the truth that only 5% of its citizens have access to the Internet.

Google didn’t immediately return the request for opinion of Fortune.

The U.S., the president said, shouldn’t view itself as an agent of change but rather “support and ease” change that empowers Cubans–including expanding access to the Internet.

“Over time,” he said, “if in fact you begin seeing accessibility to the Internet–which is required for Cuba to enter the 21st Century economically–always that gives the Cuba folks more advice and enables them to have more of a voice.”

There’s been speculation that Google was steering for a foothold in Cuba as the U.S. becomes more favorable with its onetime Cold War foe.

In June, Politico reported that a Google executive was seeing Cuba to investigate bringing better Internet access to the isle. And in July, there were reports that officials there were suspicious of it, and that Google executives had presented a blueprint to expand Internet access on the isle to the Cuban government. At the time, a Google representative told El Nuevo Herald that the technology business was “working to help the Cuban authorities think through their openly stated aim of enhancing Internet access,” and that it’d not given any cash to Cuba to develop Internet connectivity.