Cuba, Venezuela to set up undersea cable 

(MENAFN) Cuba's official daily Granma said that Cuba and Venezuela have agreed to install an undersea optical fiber cable connecting the two countries to counter the U.S. embargo, Xinhua reported.

The cable will have a total capacity of 640 gigabytes with 320 for each optical fiber, increasing by 3,000 times Cuba's data, voice and video transmission capacity with other countries, said the Venezuelan official adviser of the project.

The project is expected to end Cuba's dependence on satellites services made expensive due to the U.S. embargo, said Wilfredo Morales, director of the Telecomunicaciones Gran Caribe Commpany, the Cuba-Venezuela joint venture created to build and operate the planned cable.