U.S. to establish cable link to Guantanamo base in two years
Source: Reuters
U.S. to establish cable link to Guantanamo base in two years
By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba | Fri Sep 20, 2013 4:11pm EDT
(Reuters) - The U.S. military is laying an undersea fiber-optic cable line to connect its Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba with Florida, and could someday extend it to the rest of Cuba, a Defense Department official testified on Friday at the war crimes tribunal.
Ronald Bechtold, chief information officer at the Pentagon, said the cable line project would be finished in about two years and vastly improve communications between the naval base and the United States.
Telephone and internet communications on the base are primitive and the signals are relayed to and from the United States by satellite, which causes delays.
Completing the undersea cable "would benefit the entire base," Bechtold told the court.
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