Sky Cable Corp., through its business solutions arm SKYBIZ, is introducing new broadband bundled packages to help boost business productivity, seamless collaboration, and tools to assist in digital transformation. The firm launched its BIZTastic BunDeals allowing new subscribers to choose any...
Rampant cable-cutting in Cebu, Bacolod, and Bohol is wreaking havoc on Globe Telecom Inc.'s efforts to restore connectivity in Typhoon Odette - damaged areas, the company said on Thursday, March 17. The strong tropical cyclone toppled cell sites in the Visayas, mostly in Cebu, and compromised main...
DipologCableLanding As part of this year's P80 BIllion capex, PLDT Inc. began cable-laying operations in Dipolog City to fortify its fiber network in Mindanao. The new segment will connect PLDT’s submarine fiber optic cable from the municipality of Zamboanguita in Negros Oriental and beef up...
Sky Cable Corporation’s broadband internet service provider SKY Fiber is aiming to get a bigger piece of the rapidly growing home internet market by offering cost-effective internet connectivity. In a media briefing, the firm launched its new Super Speed Plans that address the need for fast and...
Converge Adds 1_3Tbps International Capacity Fiber broadband operator Converge ICT Solutions Inc. has boosted its international network capacity by 1.3 TeraBits per second (Tbps) in the C2C cable system, making its submarine cable configuration fully redundant. The C2C cable system is part of the...
Screenshot_20211029-105956_Yahoo Mail Fiber broadband operator Converge ICT Solutions Inc. this month completed its P6-billion domestic submarine cable connecting the country’s major islands - Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, to its national fiber backbone. The 1,800 kilometer subsea cable makes its...
A lineman of a local power firm was injured after being bitten by a snake he helped rescued from a power line in Jaro district of Iloilo City. (PIXABAY / FILE PHOTO) In a report from ABS CBN, local residents first saw the snake coiled in a power line and immediately reported it to the authorities...
PLDT Inc. is investing P3.9 Billion (US$80M) in the APRICOT undersea cable system to entice global hyperscalers expanding in the region, the telco today, August 16. pldt-logo-ver2 PLDT formed a consortium with four other parties for the cable system, which will be fully operational in 2024. The...
The rollout of additional open access fiber optic cables in the Philippines will lower internet rates and improve access by yearend. Already, Philippines Fiber Optic Cable Network (PFOCN), the local subsidiary of Singapore-based HyalRoute Group, invested US$3 billion for a 60,000-kilometer fiber...
As the country prepares to be a hub for hyperscalers, PLDT Inc. is quintupling its international bandwidth capacity when the Jupiter Cable system, where the telco invested P7Billion, is completed this year. 9359 Currently, the PLDT Group has over 10 Terabit/s in capacity that runs along its 15...
Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation’s (Keppel T&T) wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Midgard Holdings Pte. Ltd. (KMH), and Converge ICT Solutions Inc. have virtually signed definitive agreements for the latter's P5 billion investment in the Bifrost Cable System linking Singapore to...
Investigators were on Monday probing the causes of a horrific cable car crash in the Italian mountains that left 14 people dead and a five-year-old child as the sole survivor. A view shows the cableway building at its starting point by Lake Maggiore in Stresa, Piedmont, on May 24, 2021 a day after...
