The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has partnered with Japan-based IPS Incorporation and its subsidiary InfiniVAN Inc. for the expansion of the country’s undersea cable network and speeding up of digital transformation in the Philippines. Included in the 2,500-kilometer Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network expansion covers 26 landing stations including Camiguin-Misamis Oriental, Bohol-CDO and CDO-Zamboanga Del Norte1.
The investment worth $150 million will be made during the 2023-2024 period linking key cities and tourist hubs from Luzon to Mindanao. See map below.
The fibre optic cables network will cover 26 landing stations as follows:
- Batangas-Mindoro
- Mindoro-Boracay
- Lucena-Marinduque
- Marinduque-Tablas
- Capiz-Tablas
- Masbate1-Capiz
- Iloilo-Bacolod
- Negros Occidental-Western Cebu
- Zamboanga Del Norte1-Negros Oriental
- Surigao Del Norte-Southern Leyte
- Western Leyte-Cebu1
- Samar-Masbate2
- Masbate2-Sorsogon
- Boracay-Aklan
- Siargao-Surigao Del Sur
- Camiguin-Misamis Oriental
- Masbate1-Western Leyte
- Cebu2-Bohol
- Bohol-CDO
- CDO-Zamboanga Del Norte1
- Zamboanga Del Norte2-Zamboanga Del Norte1
- Zamboanga Del Norte2-Zamboanga Del Sur
- Camarines Sur-Tablas
- Southern Leyte-Cebu1
- Masbate1-Masbate2 UG Terrestrial
- Cebu1-Cebu2 UG Terrestrial
