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From: julian%bongo.UUCP@nosc.mil (Julian Macassey)
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Subject: Re: You Can't Call Anywhere From USA
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The Moderator Notes, in response to an article:

>If I remember a previous thread correctly, you can't call Cuba from
>the US (with the exception of Guantanamo Bay).

>[Moderator's Note: I believe you can call Cuba; but the call cannot be
>dialed direct and has to be routed manually by the operator.   PAT]

My 1982 Edition of "Telephony's Dictionary" shows a cable between Key
West, Florida and Havana Cuba. The number of circuits is not listed,
but I would guess it is less than fifty. I have no idea when the cable
was laid or whether it is still in use.


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