The free bandwidth is expected to resolve the connectivity issues of various government agencies and provide them more capacity to connect to the GovNet system.
The Express and Western routes connecting Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will be ready by December this year and the remaining Eastern routes will be completed by April 2023.
Globe Telecoms, Eastern Communications, and InfiniVAN marked a milestone as they kickstarted the deployment of fiber cables for the Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network, a joint project worth around $150 million or about P8.2 billion.