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Deep Blue Cable, a Caribbean
subsea telecommunications infrastructure
company, is considering a landing site
on Cuba for its high speed fiber optic
cable. The company has already begun
preparatory work for the fiber network,
which aims to be operational by the end
of 2019.
An initial 12 fiber landings over the next
30 months are proposed for markets
including the Cayman Islands, Curaçao,
the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica,
Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Eventually, Deep Blue hopes to make
up to 40 landings, bringing in major Latin
American markets such as Panama and
Colombia. Deep Blue plans to sell cable
access on awholesalebasis tobroadband
providers, and will sell high speed internet
services directly to customers.
Deep Blue also plans to market its services
directly to major internet companies such
as Facebook or Skype, whose services
consume large amounts of data.
Deep Blue’s proposed first phase fiber
would run west from Naples, go around
Cuba, then turn south and east towards
the Caymans with two possible spurs off
the main cable onto Cuba.
Deep Blue founder Denis O’Brien also owns
Digicel, a mobile phone network provider
operating throughout the Caribbean and
repeatedly linked with Cuba. Mr O’Brien
has described the islandas an “interesting”
investment prospect.
Cable heading for Cuba?
wiredInUSA - September 2017
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