ICYMI: PH internet deal with Facebook a go by September 2020 — DICT
Department of Information and Communications Technology undersecretary Eliseo Rio Jr. said over the weekend the international submarine cable project led by technology giants Google and Facebook will connect to the Philippines by August or September 2020.The Philippine branch of the 12,800-kilometer undersea cable system—known as the Pacific Light Cable Network —is expected to significantly lower the cost of internet services in the country.
The PLCN project was launched in 2017 with the goal of connecting Los Angeles in the US, Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. “The Trump government did not authorize the direct connection from LA to HK,” Rio told the Inquirer. “But Facebook was able to get authorisation to connect the Philippines to LA.”
The Luzon Bypass project includes two government-controlled landing stations—the landfall points of submarine cables—in Aurora and La Union. Rio said the cable will be connected to Baler, Aurora by the third quarter of 2020. Rio added that the DICT plans to tap unused fiber cables of the National Transmission Corp. and National Grid Corp. From here, internet service providers and cable television operators can invest in infrastructure to their customers in exchange for bandwidth coming from Facebook.“The balance can be available for such off-setting agreement,” he said, citing interested broadband companies such as Converge ICT Solutions and Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
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