New Asian undersea cable ADC ready to operate, developer says (updated)

NEC

19/12/2024 08:35

(Recasts with branches of cable, comment from NEC)
       HANOI, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A new undersea fiber-optic
cable connecting Japan to Singapore with branches to other Asian
countries is ready for operation this month, one of the
developers said on Thursday.
    The Asia Direct Cable (ADC), which has been under
development for years, was inaugurated on Wednesday at a
ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, Vietnamese military-run
telecom company Viettel said.
    In addition to Viettel, the 10,000 km-long (6,210 miles)
cable, has been developed by SoftBank  9984.T , China Telecom
Global, China Telecom Corporation  601728.SS , China Unicom
 0762.HK , Singtel  STEL.SI , TATA Communications  TATA.NS ,
National Telecom and PLDT  TEL.PS , Viettel Solutions - a unit
of Viettel - said in a statement.
    Japan's NEC  6701.T  is the contractor of the project.
    The cable will have branches to Thailand, Vietnam, Hong
Kong, China and the Philippines.
    It will be Vietnam's sixth undersea cable. The country plans
to have 15 by 2030. 
    Last week, Reuters reported another project was being
discussed between Vietnamese and Singaporean partners.  
    ADC will support increasingly bandwidth-intensive
applications in the region, said Tomonori Uematsu, NEC's senior
vice president. 

 (Reporting by Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio; Editing by
John Mair and Eileen Soreng)
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