Installation of fiber optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela starts next week

[Judi Lynn]

CARACAS, Thursday January 13, 2011
Installation of fiber optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela starts next week

The cable, which is 1,012 miles long, is on board a French boat bound for Venezuela, along with technology required for cable laying and a submarine robot for installation monitoring

Telecommunications
A submarine fiber optic cable for telecommunications to be laid between Cuba and Venezuela will reach the eastern coast of the Caribbean island in the first half of February, state-run media reported in Havana.

The cable, which is 1,012 miles long, is on board a French boat bound for Venezuela, along with technology required for cable laying and a submarine robot for installation monitoring, Efe reported.

According to the work schedule, the installation of the fiber optic cable, which will cost about USD 70 million, will begin on January 18-20 in Camurí, near the Venezuelan port of La Guaira. The cable will reach Siboney beach at the Cuban eastern city of Santiago in the first half of February.

http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/01/13/en_eco_art_installation-of-fibe_13A4976973.shtml
Opposition newspaper

[social_critic]

1. I wonder if they'll give the Cubans access to the internet

Without the Great Firewall. I have relatives in Cuba who are dying to get their own email accounts and use the internet, but they can't. If they get access to information, that regime is toast.