BY: ROSALITA B. MANLANGIT
DAET, Camarines Norte, Oct. 9 (PIA) -- The Bagasbas Beach here will be the third landing station of the Asia Submarine Cable Express (ASE) with an investment of $300 million from local and international investors expected to boost the local economy and provide employment opportunities for the locales.
Daet Mayor Tito Sarion said during a press conference on Monday this week that the landing station will serve as the gateway of the 7,200 kilometer ASE that connects Singapore, Malaysia, Philipppines, Hongkong and Japan
Sarion said that the project will further the growth of broadband internet and international data connectivity as well as enhance the country’s global competitiveness in attracting investments from Business Process Outsourcing or call centers and other multi-national companies.
The ASE is owned by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) together with NFFCom of Japan, Telekom Malaysia and StarHub of Singapore. It was built in partnership with NEC Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd.
Sarion added that the project has already started its international connectivity while the same will commence operation here on November this year.
He said that the challenge for the local government unit is to offer the possible incentives and sites for would be BPOs investors in the town.
He also said that there is already one existing BPO in town operated by a local corporation with a contract about to expire with Software Ventures International (SVI) yet has pledged to resume through the project plus another three (3) from Makati base, United State base and PLDT.
This would bring initial four (4) investments in town.
He said that Daet with these developments should maximize the opportunity especially this will help boost employment for those graduates who want to work in call centers which will be available here and will not anymore go out of the town.
He also said that with the existence of internet connectivity in Legazpi City and in Pili, Daet will offer its good peace and order situation, creates quality graduates of Information Technology (IT), offers investment incentive programs to would be investors and massive information campaigns that it is better to invest in town.
Recently in September 26, the Japan Ambassador to the Philipppines Toshinao Urabe and Embassy of Japan First Secretary Kazuto Okazaki visited the ASE landing station here accompanied by PLDT President and CEO Napoleon L. Nazareno and welcomed by Mayor Sarion and Governor Edgardo Tallado.
The ASE is the first and only direct cable from the Philippines to Japan that bypasses the calamity-prone Bashi Channel in Taiwan, leading to the shortest latency and least points of failure to Japan. It is also the first Philippine cable to use 40 Gbps technology which is upgradeable to 100 Gbps.
With the ASE, PLDT now operates three landing stations in the country, the most among telcos in the Philippines. The other two landing stations are located in Nasugbu, Batangas and Bauang La, Union.
Including this new international submarine cable, the PLDT Group now has more than 71,000 kilometers of fiber assets.
“This fortifies our already formidable network advantage as we cover more areas, increase date speeds and provide enhanced redundancies for improve resiliency”. PLDT president Nazareno said.
The expansion of PLDT’s fiber optics network is accelerating the deployment of PLDT’s fiber to the home (FTTH) service and the fourth-generation mobile data service called Long Term Evolution (LTE) of its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications. (MAL/RBM-PIA5/Camarines Norte)
DAET, Camarines Norte, Oct. 9 (PIA) -- The Bagasbas Beach here will be the third landing station of the Asia Submarine Cable Express (ASE) with an investment of $300 million from local and international investors expected to boost the local economy and provide employment opportunities for the locales.
Daet Mayor Tito Sarion said during a press conference on Monday this week that the landing station will serve as the gateway of the 7,200 kilometer ASE that connects Singapore, Malaysia, Philipppines, Hongkong and Japan
Sarion said that the project will further the growth of broadband internet and international data connectivity as well as enhance the country’s global competitiveness in attracting investments from Business Process Outsourcing or call centers and other multi-national companies.
The ASE is owned by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) together with NFFCom of Japan, Telekom Malaysia and StarHub of Singapore. It was built in partnership with NEC Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd.
Sarion added that the project has already started its international connectivity while the same will commence operation here on November this year.
He said that the challenge for the local government unit is to offer the possible incentives and sites for would be BPOs investors in the town.
He also said that there is already one existing BPO in town operated by a local corporation with a contract about to expire with Software Ventures International (SVI) yet has pledged to resume through the project plus another three (3) from Makati base, United State base and PLDT.
This would bring initial four (4) investments in town.
He said that Daet with these developments should maximize the opportunity especially this will help boost employment for those graduates who want to work in call centers which will be available here and will not anymore go out of the town.
He also said that with the existence of internet connectivity in Legazpi City and in Pili, Daet will offer its good peace and order situation, creates quality graduates of Information Technology (IT), offers investment incentive programs to would be investors and massive information campaigns that it is better to invest in town.
Recently in September 26, the Japan Ambassador to the Philipppines Toshinao Urabe and Embassy of Japan First Secretary Kazuto Okazaki visited the ASE landing station here accompanied by PLDT President and CEO Napoleon L. Nazareno and welcomed by Mayor Sarion and Governor Edgardo Tallado.
The ASE is the first and only direct cable from the Philippines to Japan that bypasses the calamity-prone Bashi Channel in Taiwan, leading to the shortest latency and least points of failure to Japan. It is also the first Philippine cable to use 40 Gbps technology which is upgradeable to 100 Gbps.
With the ASE, PLDT now operates three landing stations in the country, the most among telcos in the Philippines. The other two landing stations are located in Nasugbu, Batangas and Bauang La, Union.
Including this new international submarine cable, the PLDT Group now has more than 71,000 kilometers of fiber assets.
“This fortifies our already formidable network advantage as we cover more areas, increase date speeds and provide enhanced redundancies for improve resiliency”. PLDT president Nazareno said.
The expansion of PLDT’s fiber optics network is accelerating the deployment of PLDT’s fiber to the home (FTTH) service and the fourth-generation mobile data service called Long Term Evolution (LTE) of its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications. (MAL/RBM-PIA5/Camarines Norte)
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