DAVAO CITY – President Rodrigo Duterte cited Globe Telecom for choosing Davao City as the host of its USD250-million Southeast Asia-United States (SEA-US) submarine cable system for it reinforces the capacity and resiliency of the country’s information system.
The President lauded the project as it would also improve communication capacities, better access to basic services, increased competitiveness, and build smarter cities.
In a speech read for him by Presidential Communications Operations Secretary Martin Andanar, the President said that choosing Davao City as host of the project will generate more investments and create job opportunities not only for Davao, but also in Mindanao.
Duterte also expressed optimism the project would complement the national broadband plan of the government aimed at improving the internet connectivity in the country.
In an interview at the sidelines of the ceremonial launch of the SEA-US cable system at Seda Hotel Friday, Andanar said the project is laudable as this will cause faster internet access in Davao and Mindanao.
He said it is the first cable submarine system which is connected through Davao bypassing earthquake zones in the north.This makes the system more resilient and less susceptible to signal interruptions caused by natural calamities.
“This is really advantageous for the citizens of Davao City and Mindanao,” he said.
Ernest Cu, Globe president and CEO, said Davao will benefit from this system getting the best connectivity going out of the country.
He said the system is the first cable run in the country and resilient in relation to other cable currently operating.
“This means quicker interconnection via the internet which we call in technical terms – latency,” Cu told said in an interview with reporters.
In this project, Globe is investing US$100 million.
“The cable system is a consortium between four companies in the United States, Hawaii, and Guam.
Cu said the project has been completed and the cable is already carrying traffic since late July.
“This will level up connection. As we build capacity usage goes up as well. And so we have to keep up as the country catches up in terms of building up wireline infrastructure given the fact that we focus on mobile for many years,” Cu stressed.
Cu said that with faster connection, Davao can host and address the growing information and communications technology requirements of BPOs, financial institutions, internet service providers, and other content providers in the south.
The SEA-US cable system is connected to the Globe cable landing station in Barangay Talomo which houses the Power Feed Equipment necessary to run the system.
Globe revealed that outside of Luzon, the 14,500-kilometer undersea cable is the first direct connection of Globe to the US via Guam, Hawaii, and California.
This offers faster transmission of data to the US. Globe said the facility uses the latest 100 gigabits per second transmission technology to deliver an additional 20 terabits per second capacity. The additional capacity will cater to the exponential growth of bandwidth between the two continents.
It was learned that the system was built by a consortium of seven international telecommunications companies and links five regions that included Manado in Indonesia, Davao in the Philippines, Piti in Guam, Oahu in Hawaii, and Los Angeles in California, USA. (Lilian C. Mellejor/PNA)
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