MIAMI, United States. – This Monday the Arimao submarine cable made landfall in Martinique, which was deployed from the Cuban province of Cienfuegos, as revealed on Twitter Tania Velázquez, president of the Cuban Telecommunications Company (ETECSA).
“Advancing in the announced project, today the new Arimao submarine cable that joins the coasts of Cuba makes landfall in Martinique, a connection system that will diversify and expand the internet access capabilities of our country,” he wrote. the Cuban official.
At the beginning of December 2022, Cuba’s telecommunications monopoly advertisement the signing of an agreement with the French company Orange SA, which would allow “expanding and diversifying international capacities in the face of the growing demand for Internet connection and broadband services on the Island.”
According to the published note, “it is a submarine cable system deployed by ORANGE, through its subsidiary Orange Marine, which will connect the Caribbean island of Martinique with the province of Cienfuegos, and whose capacity will allow ETECSA to support its international expansion ”.
The cable will allow the state telecommunications monopoly to expand international connectivity, as well as improve the services of all the networks on the Island.
In 2022, the United States Department of Justice recommended the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny permission for the installation of the first submarine telecommunications cable that would connect the northern country with Cuba.
The Committee for the Evaluation of Foreign Participation in the Telecommunications Services Sector, known as Team Telecom, advised the Federal Communications Commission to reject the application of ARCOS-1 USA Inc. and A.SurNet Inc., after alleging that “Cuba represents risks to national security [de Estados Unidos] and a counterintelligence threat.”
The Island’s regime exercises control over all internet services, websites and virtual private servers, community networks and private networks, as well as telecommunications contracts. Meanwhile, ordinary Cubans continue to pay for an expensive, unstable and insecure service without being able to choose or have other options.
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