According to Movistar, this new submarine cable, Pencan 8, will improve the reliability of voice, data, and broadband communications between the Canary Islands and the Spanish mainland, ensuring that service outages (internet, television, VoIP, business data, and communications in general) will be virtually nonexistent.

In its statement, the company noted that the world's first commercial submarine fiber optic cable was laid in 1985 between Candelaria (Tenerife) and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. EFE