GENEVA — The International Telecoms Union has hailed Cuba's new undersea fibre optic cable that will dramatically increase the country's connectivity with the outside world.“This propels Cuba into the high-speed era, taking connectivity from a mere 380 megabits per second to true ultra-fast broadband,” said ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré, who was guest of honor at the ceremony in Santiago de Cuba last week.">GENEVA — The International Telecoms Union has hailed Cuba's new undersea fibre optic cable that will dramatically increase the country's connectivity with the outside world.“This propels Cuba into the high-speed era, taking connectivity from a mere 380 megabits per second to true ultra-fast broadband,” said ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré, who was guest of honor at the ceremony in Santiago de Cuba last week.">

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Itu hails Cuba's new high speed internet connectivity

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  • 02 / 16 / 2011

GENEVA — The International Telecoms Union has hailed Cuba's new undersea fibre optic cable that will dramatically increase the country's connectivity with the outside world.

“This propels Cuba into the high-speed era, taking connectivity from a mere 380 megabits per second to true ultra-fast broadband,” said ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré, who was guest of honor at the ceremony in Santiago de Cuba last week.

ITU said the cable, which runs 1,630 kilometers from the Venezuelan port of La Guaira to the eastern Cuban town of Siboney and cost around US$70 million to build, will provide nearly a 3,000-fold increase in Cuba's voice, data and video transmission speeds.

A second segment will stretch 230 kilometers from Cuba to Ocho Rios in Jamaica.

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