Caracas, 20 Ene. AVN .- Venezuela strengthens its international interconnection through the installation of 994.19 miles of optical fiber that will arrive soon to Cuba and will have branches to the Caribbean. The idea is to throw a cable by the bottom of the sea to establish a link that will improve drastically the telephone service and the Internet provided to the inhabitants of the island. During the presentation of the Annual Report and Accounts 2010 before the National Assembly, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said that soon the installation of a submarine cable will begin from Venezuela to Cuba with branches to the Caribbean.">Caracas, 20 Ene. AVN .- Venezuela strengthens its international interconnection through the installation of 994.19 miles of optical fiber that will arrive soon to Cuba and will have branches to the Caribbean. The idea is to throw a cable by the bottom of the sea to establish a link that will improve drastically the telephone service and the Internet provided to the inhabitants of the island. During the presentation of the Annual Report and Accounts 2010 before the National Assembly, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said that soon the installation of a submarine cable will begin from Venezuela to Cuba with branches to the Caribbean.">

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Caracas, 20 Ene. AVN .- Venezuela strengthens its international interconnection through the installation of 994.19 miles of optical fiber that will arrive soon to Cuba and will have branches to the Caribbean.

The idea is to throw a cable by the bottom of the sea to establish a link that will improve drastically the telephone service and the Internet provided to the inhabitants of the island.

During the presentation of the Annual Report and Accounts 2010 before the National Assembly, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez said that soon the installation of a submarine cable will begin from Venezuela to Cuba with branches to the Caribbean.

“The international interconnection capacity has been also strengthened. In a few we will start to launch a submarine cable of 994.19 meters of union, of integration among our people,” he underscored.

The Head of State informed that “the ship already left French ports. Said country is helping us with this project, a submarine cable from Venezuela to Cuba with branches to the Caribbean and maybe to the United States in the future, someday.

Someday, the unjustified, terrible, arbitrary blockade from the most powerful government of the world to Cuba will come to an end.”

Furthermore, he stressed that there is not a single reason to have Cuba under a blockade.

“They are threatening us with sanctions for installing the submarine cable from here, the coast. We will soon go there, you are all invited. I will be there to launch the cable,” he added.

According to information published by the website Cubadebate, Jose Ignacio Quintero, manager of Solutions of the company Alcatel-Lucent, which in charge of the project, explained that the vessel Ile de Batz is already anchored in Venezuelan coasts and is ready to start with the installation of the cable in the next days.

It is expected that the cable will be already operative in July.

Cuba is the only country in the Western Hemisphere that is not connected to the rest of the world with optical fiber cables, because of the US blockade. In turn, it uses satellite communications, which are slow and expensive, mostly with Europe.

Quintero added that the cable will have the capacity to manage about 80 million simultaneous phone calls; part of it will be devoted to provide Internet service, though.

After the connection, users “will have access to international phone calls from or to Cuba without waiting time. Users will have an experience a lot better than their current situation,” he added.

Source: www.avn.info.ve/node/39166


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