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...
ROME, Italy – Thirteen people died and two children were seriously injured Sunday when a cable car slammed into the side of a mountain in northern Italy, emergency services said. A photo by the Italian Firefighters "Vigili del Fuoco" shows rescuers working by a cable car that crashed to the...
Local fiber broadband provider Converge Information & Communications Technology Solutions, Inc. (Converge) is investing $100 million (around P5 billion) into the Bifrost Cable System, in a partnership with Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation’s (Keppel T&T), wholly-owned...
With competition heating up the fixed broadband market, Sky Cable Corporation has launched a price war by increasing speed and lowering prices od its SKU Fiber plans. “Subscribers will continue to have broadband plans from SKY that are affordable but in addition get faster speeds that will...
It looks like better days are coming for ABS-CBN. Fans speculated that Kapamilya programs would be seen on Zoe TV, a free television channel, after SkyCable, an affiliate of ABS-CBN, added Zoe TV Channel 11 to its channel line-up based on the cable firm's advisory. “Zoe Channel will be added to...
