Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable

angry tapir writes "A change in Internet traffic patterns over the past week suggests that Cuba may have turned on a fiber-optic submarine cable that links it to the global Internet via Venezuela. Routing analyst firm Renesys noticed that the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica began routing Internet traffic to Cuba's state telecommunications company, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA). The Internet traffic is flowing with significantly lower latencies than before, indicating the connection is not solely using the three satellite providers that Cuba has relied on in the past for connectivity."

Well

[GeekWithAKnife]

I guess it's time for a Cuba Libre. Cheers.

I'm glad for their sailors

[Anonymous Coward]

To finally have internet access on their submarines must be a godsend. I wonder how they avoid getting the cable tangled as the maneuver though.

Re:Turn on?

[InPursuitOfTruth]

You don't 'turn on' a cable.

you've never had your cable turned on?

Will Cuba Ever Learn?!

[mooboy]

First they turn on their capitalist landowners and now they have turned on their Submarine Internet Cable! Don't you know what's good for you, Cuba?

Re:Well

[Noughmad]

So you drink to the completion of "Cuba Fibre"?