The consortium building the longest undersea cable system in the Philippines tapped NTT World Engineering Marine Corp. of Japan for the last leg of the $150-million Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network project.
“With the final phase of the PDSCN in motion, we are excited to take a major step towards our goal of nation-building through digitalization. We are committed to completing the project to provide a first world network by bringing fast and reliable connectivity to every corner of the Philippines,” said Globe president and chief executive Ernest Cu.
“This is a crucial step towards bridging the digital divide and providing equitable and reliable connectivity, which is essential for the economic and social development of our country,” he said.
NTT WE Marine will land and lay cables in the project’s nine remaining segments covering 13 sites until April this year through cable ship Subaru.
PDSCN in 2021 tapped state-of-the-art ship Cable Infinity from Japanese vendor Kokusai Cable Ship Co. Ltd. to connect 15 segments across the country via fiber. PDSCN, which covers a total cable distance of 2,500 km., kicked off in July 2022 to bring fiber connectivity to previously unserved and underserved areas. Darwin G. Amojelar