Cuba welcomes new internet cable link with Venezuela

Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo.The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world.The new connection will make download speeds 3,000 times faster – at least for the small minority of Cubans who have internet access.It should also make international phone calls much cheaper.To read this BBC News report in full, see:
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