Cuba have high speed internet in July 2011

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CUBA HAVE HIGH SPEED INTERNET IN JULY 2011

French vessel Ile de Batz came to Venezuela with 1,600 kilometers of fiber optic board to connect the South American country with Cuba. The ship is about to begin extending the cable in the coming days.

The project should significantly improve telephone and Internet service in Cuba, will cost $ 70 million. The line to enter service in July 2011 Camurí gather in Venezuela, to Siboney, Cuba. When it is extended, the cable will have a capacity to handle around 80 million simultaneous phone calls and, after arriving in Cuba, an extension will also connect to the neighboring island of Jamaica.

The cable capacity of 640 gigabytes with an investment of $ 63.4 million and will be in charge of the French company Alcatel Shanghai Bell, China.

Cuba is the only country in the Western Hemisphere that is not connected to the rest of the world with fiber optic cables. The country has Internet since 1996 via a satellite link, especially in Europe, but access is slow (209 megabytes of departure, and 379, input) and expensive. Cuban officials blame the U.S.. UU. and its blockade of the island to prevent access to the Internet by not allowing connection to fiber optic cables that surround it, one of which refers to Cancun in Mexico to Miami in the U.S.. UU. and passed only 32 kilometers from Havana.

According to statistics, in 2009 the country had 700 thousand computers, or 62 for every thousand inhabitants.

Venezuela is Cuba's main trading partner. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he plans to be there to inaugurate the project.

The optical cable will improve the situation in the country in regard to the connection with international communications, but not supposed to "appear online in August in every house," said Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Boris Moreno. According to the deputy minister of that portfolio, Ramon Linares, these conditions will remain insufficient to provide mass access to the Internet due to technical problems and internal finance.

Source: http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencia_y_tecnica/internet_redes/issue_19520.html

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