20 December 2022

The US Government has called for the Federal Communications Commission to refuse an application to deliver connectivity to Cuba through the ARCOS-1 subsea cable.

The ARCOS-1 cable system connects the US to 14 nations in the Caribbean, Central America and South America. Proposed plans detailed extending to a landing station in Cojimar, Cuba.

A Justice Department panel, ‘Team Telecom,’ said that the new subsea cable landing station would be owned and controlled by Cuban state-owned operator Empresa de Telecommunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA). The panel claims that the Cuban government “could access sensitive US data traversing the new cable segment.”