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Today, the Committee to Assess Foreign Participation in the US Telecommunications Services Sector, Team Telecom or the Committee, recommended that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deny an application by ARCOS-1 USA Inc. and A.SurNet Inc. cable system (ARCOS-1 Cable System) to modify the system by adding an additional segment connected directly to the United States through a new landing station in Cojimar, Cuba.

“The United States supports an open, interoperable, secure and reliable internet around the world, including in Cuba. Unfortunately, the Cuban government does not share that view,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “As long as the Cuban Government poses a counterintelligence threat to the United States, and partners with others who do the same, the risks to our critical infrastructure are too great.”

As presented to the FCC, the ARCOS-1 Cable System application would have allowed for the only direct commercial submarine cable connection between the United States and Cuba. This raised national security concerns, as the cable landing system in Cuba would be owned and controlled by Cuba’s telecommunications monopoly, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA). The Cuban Government – which the US recognizes as an authoritarian and foreign adversary of the US – could access sensitive US data crossing the new cable segment through its control of ETECSA.

The Committee’s recommendation was based on factors which included the following:

Submarine fiber optic cable systems are a vital national security asset and carry most of the world’s internet, voice and data traffic between continents. While the United States supports the Cuban people’s access to an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable internet, the Committee found that this particular license request involves the landing of a cable that presents unacceptable risks to United States national security and interests law enforcement that cannot be mitigated. .

The Committee was established pursuant to Executive Order 13913 and is led by the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, Foreign Investment Review Division. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense are fellow members of the Committee. The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration filed the recommendation on behalf of the Executive Branch.

More information about the Committee’s recommendation is available on the FCC’s International Bureau of Filing System (IBFS), under Docket Number SCL-MOD-20210928-00039

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