By The Register Facebook has emerged as an investor in the Asia Pacific Gateway submarine cable project, being built to link eight countries in the region. The investment by The Social NetworkTM emerged in a stock exchange announcement by Malaysian ISP, Time dotCom, which has become the latest investor in the under-construction cable system. Read more…
TdC bags submarine cable system job
By Sun Daily Time dotCom Bhd (TdC) has bagged the job to construct and maintain the Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable system which connects Malaysia to South Korea and Japan. Its wholly-owned subsidiaries and global bandwidth business arms, Global Transit Communication Sdn Bhd and Global Transit Ltd, collectively known as Global Transit, will administer the [...]
Chunghwa Telecom to participate in Asia-Pacific Gateway submarine network
By Fierce Telecom Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE: CHT) believes that one way it will be able to achieve its goals to up revenue and earnings in 2012 is through its investment in the new Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable project. Working with a consortium of 14 major Asia Pacific telecom service providers, Chunghwa will invest [...]
NTT Com Signs Contract for Asia Pacific Gateway Network
By PR Newswire NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced that it joined numerous other telecommunications carriers in Asia on December 20 in signing a contract for the construction and maintenance of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), an undersea cable network that is scheduled to launch by June 2014 with a total design capacity of 54.8 [...]





