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USA want Internet cable to Cuba route
In Cuba, hardly anyone has Internet access. The want the US to change. Planned is a fiber optic cable to the Caribbean Islands to the Internet connection to improve. The government in Havana shows “open to the idea”.
“We prepare a favorable environment for the Installation of a cable between Miami and Havana before”, quoted by the news portal OnCuba the communications representative for the U.S. Department of state, Daniel Sepulveda.
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The Cuban government was “open to the idea,” wool, but proposals in writing and the insurance that “it works”. The cable is simply necessary in order for the “recovery” of the relationship between the two countries to help quoted OnCuba Sepulveda.
A whole country in fact “offline”
Since the rapprochement with the United States opens itself to the Communist Caribbean island more involved in the world. With the connection to the Internet, it falls short but still. The Internet access is as bad as almost anywhere else in the world. Only 150.000 users every day had last year in world wide web surfing, at around eleven million inhabitants. Just 35 public Wi-Fi Connections are on Cuba available. Access to the Internet is there for the residents of the island nation at all only since 2011. At that time, had the allies Venezuela a fiber-optic cable on the seabed moved and Cuba is so connected to the outside world.
Communists are worried about government control
In the opinion of Cuba-connoisseurs are the Wirtschaftsreformer to the head of state Raúl Castro are now aware that in the global competition for economic reasons, not to make an Opening of the Internet to come around – this is supposed to be but at the same time, to the skepticism of old party cadre encounter, to the control of the state provide.
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Wireless Internet in Cuba (28.12.2015)
US President Barack Obama and Cuban Staatchef Castro had about a year ago, a historical approach of the arch-enemies of the days of the Cold war initiated. Since were travel and trade for Cuba in force, and also strokes in the United States and the Caribbean island from its list of Terrorstaaten. In July, both countries have their diplomatic ties back on.
The United States announced further improvements in the provisions of the trading with Cuba. Affected are air transport and the financial sector. But also the exchange of goods, for example, in the agricultural sector, should be simplified, said the Ministry of economic Affairs in Washington.
qu/kle (dpa, rtr)