The 14,000-kilometer Jupiter Cable system is the newest international gateway connecting the Philippines directly from PLDT’s cable landing station in Daet, Camarines Norte to Japan and the US West Coast.
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 Jupiter Cable System is now the fastest cable system between the Philippines and the United States. Once fully equipped, it is anticipated to increase PLDT’s international capacity of 20 Terabit/s to about 60 Terabit/s.
Common tower provider Phil-Tower Consortium has announced the completion of their 200th cell site, a major milestone for the industry as the last 100 sites were completed in just over a month.
Paulo Martin “Santi” Santos will be tasked with implementing strategic technology initiatives to further modernize the network infrastructure of Converge.
PLDT announced on Monday, April 19, that its subsidiaries Smart Communications and Digitel Mobile Philippines have signed agreements for the sale of 5,907 telecom towers and related infrastructure for P77 billion.
At the groundbreaking of its 11th and largest hyperscale data center in Sta. Rosa, Laguna on Friday, March 18, PLDT president and CEO Al Panlilio said the soon-to-be-built facility will be the biggest in the country with no peers in its class.
ePLDT Vitro’s 11th data center — Vitro Sta. Rosa — will rise in what is said to be the country’s largest DC campus by far -- a five-hectare PLDT property in the industrial city of Sta. Rosa.
PLDT Home will pilot its 10,000 Mbps service in Metro Manila this December and will then implement further expansions in other key cities outside Metro Manila like Cebu and Davao in 2022.
