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Cuba-Venezuela
Submarine
Cable
will be
Ready in
July
2011
HAVANA -
The
submarine
optical
fiber
cable
between
Cuba,
Venezuela
and
Jamaica
will be
ready in
July
2011,
said the
Cuban
Vice
Minister
of
Computing
and
Communications,
Alberto
Rodríguez.
This
project
will
cover a
distance
of 3,318
miles,
and will
strengthen
national
sovereignty
and
security,
Rodriguez
said
while
inaugurating
the
First
Business
Forum
Cuba-Azerbaijan
in the
field of
new
technologies.
The
cable
will
provide
more
quality
in the
info-communications
services
and more
favorable
conditions
will be
created
to face
future
developments.
Rodriguez
explained
that the
cable
will be
achieved
through
integration
projects
with the
Bolivarian
Alternative
for the
Peoples
of Our
Americas
(ALBA),
an
initiative
founded
by
Caracas
and
Havana
in 2004.
At a
cost of
$70
million,
it will
have a
life
span of
25 years
and the
investment
will be
recovered
in
standard
periods,
said
Waldo
Reboredo,
vice
president
of
Telecommunications
Gran
Caribe
SA, the
joint
venture
that
will
manage
the
operation.
The
existence
of the
cable
will
allow
Cuba to
multiply
by three
thousand
times
the
current
speed
transmission
of data,
images
and
voice,
and the
countries
involved
will
benefit
in terms
of
social
exchange.
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