This comes in the wake of an incident in Laguna where a group of men intentionally cut and damaged PLDT fiber optic cables, disrupting the delivery of PLDT services in the area, and also of persistent reports nationwide of sabotage of PLDT fiber optic cables, causing outages and hardship to subscribers.
The Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Consortium is building a new 9,400-kilometer long submarine cable that will provide additional capacity for Internet and digital services via a new route through the East and Southeast regions.
