U.S. to establish cable link to Guantanamo base in two years

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. to establish cable link to Guantanamo base in two years

By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba | Fri Sep 20, 2013 4:11pm EDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. military is laying an undersea fiber-optic cable line to connect its Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba with Florida, and could someday extend it to the rest of Cuba, a Defense Department official testified on Friday at the war crimes tribunal.

Ronald Bechtold, chief information officer at the Pentagon, said the cable line project would be finished in about two years and vastly improve communications between the naval base and the United States.

Telephone and internet communications on the base are primitive and the signals are relayed to and from the United States by satellite, which causes delays.

Completing the undersea cable "would benefit the entire base," Bechtold told the court.

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[MADem]

1. Cuba did a solid for USA recently--they told "Fast Eddie" he couldn't use their

airport to transit to South America.

It wouldn't surprise me if they're mending fences and this cable might one day be used as a huge carrot. If Castro dies, all bets are off--I think we'll see rapid normalization.