Alphabet Inc’s Google signed a deal with Cuban telecoms monopoly ETECSA on Thurs...
HAVANA - Alphabet Inc’s Google signed a deal with Cuban telecoms monopoly ETECSA on Thursday to work toward improving internet traffic exchange between their two networks and connectivity on the Communist-run island.
Google and ETECSA signed a memorandum of understanding to begin the negotiation of a so-called “peering agreement” that would create a cost-free and direct connection between their two networks. The peering would be implemented “when technical conditions allow it,” they said. That means the establishment of a physical connection between Cuba’s network and a Google “point of presence”, the closest ones being in South Florida, Mexico and Colombia.U.S. officials have in the past advocated for connecting Cuba via fibre-optic cable with the United States just 90 miles across the Florida Straits.
Cuban-U.S. relations have nosedived since Republican Donald Trump became U.S. President promising to roll back a detente agreed by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama and tightening once more a decades-old U.S. trade embargo on the island. Google set up a small pilot display center in Havana and signed a deal in 2016 granting internet users quicker access to its branded content.
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