Arsat will establish an underwater digital link between Argent …

“Argentina and Chile are taking concrete steps to renew regional integration by betting on connectivity and technological sovereignty,” said Chief of Staff Santiago Cafiero, highlighting the strategic agreement to deepen regional connectivity signed between President Alberto Fernández and his counterpart. Chilean, Sebastián Piñera. The official highlighted in a column published in the newspaper The third of Chile that “the construction of this digital link – which will be carried out by Arsat – will enable Chile and Argentina to make decisive progress in a digital integration and telecommunications program”.

The president signed the agreement with Chile during his last international tour. The Puerta Digital Asia South America transpacific submarine cable project “has a strategic and integrative character for the region, since it will be the first submarine Internet cable that will link South America to the Asia-Pacific region. “Arsat said in a statement. The cable mooring will be in the Chilean coastal city of Valparaíso, “which implies an accessible connection with the more than 34,500 kilometers of our Federal Optical Fiber Network (REFEFO), thus accelerating the digital integration of Argentina. and Chile, thanks to the transport of Internet traffic. via Arsat “, underlined the telecommunications company. And he added that” this transport, from and to Brazil, considered as the main market, and also towards Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia to Oceania / Asia, regardless of having to go through the United States and Europe, will position Arsat at the regional level, both in the commercialization of fiber optic and satellite services ”.

Cafiero assured that it is “a real bet towards technological and communicational sovereignty, and a vital space for our region if we intend to develop in an autonomous and virtuous way”. The chief of staff explained that the agreement “ came after a semester of negotiations between the chief of staff of the ministers of Argentina, through the Secretariat of Public Innovation, the Undersecretariat of Technologies of information and communication, and Arsat, on the Argentinian side, and members of the Secretariat for Telecommunications (Subtel), the Chilean Chancellery and the Fund for Development Infrastructure of the country, on behalf of Chile. ”