The Pentagon plans to install a $40 million fiber optic cable between the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay and the US mainland, a spokesman said Thursday - an indication the facility will not close anytime soon.
According to a "feasibility study" conducted by the US Defense Information Systems Agency, the project will cost an estimated $40 million, Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale told AFP.
The project - part of the budget for the fiscal year 2013 - must be approved by Congress, he said, confirming a Miami Herald report.
The construction of a fiber optic link would greatly improve telecoms access for those living at the US military base in Cuba. Detention camps at the naval base currently house 169 inmates.
News of the fiber optic cable project comes after the recent construction of a football field for Guantanamo inmates, at a cost of $744,000....