2023-04-29 04:30:44
Cuba has been connected since April to an undersea cable, still in the test phase, deployed by the French group Orange from Martinique in order to increase the island’s access to broadband, the official press announced on Friday.
“During the month of April, the new Arimao cable began its initial test period”, indicates the official website Cubadebate, quoting the Vice President of Network Operations of the Cuban national telecommunications company (Etecsa), Lidia Esther Hidalgo Rodríguez.
According to the manager, “these tests now make it possible to manage a first level of traffic growth (…) This has enabled a 17% increase in total traffic this month, with the mobile service representing 83% of this value”.
In December, Etecsa announced the signing of a contract with the French telecommunications group Orange for the deployment of an undersea cable from the island of Martinique (French overseas territory, in the West Indies), with the province of Cienfuego (center).
The Cuban telecommunications company had indicated that it was a question of “increasing and diversifying (its) international capacities in the face of the growing demand for Internet connection and broadband services”.
Mobile internet has been accessible in Cuba since 2018, but users regularly suffer from connection problems, on the fixed and mobile networks.
Until now, the communist island was connected to only one cable from Venezuela.
In December, an evaluation committee of the United States had given an unfavorable opinion to the request of two companies of this country to deploy a submarine cable between the United States and Cuba, invoking reasons of national security.
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