Chunghwa Telecom and seven other telecos to build Asia Pacific submarine cable system

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on May 25 signed a memorandum of understanding with seven Asian telecom carriers to jointly construct the Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG), an undersea cable system to connect China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and several Southeast Asian countries, according to CHT.

The APG will have a minimum designed capacity of 4Tbps based on the latest DWDM (dense wavelength-division multiplexing) technology and will be completed in 2011, CHT pointed out. CHT will invest an estimated US$40 million as its share of the total construction costs, the company indicated.

The seven APG partners are China Telecom, China United Telecommunications, NTT Communications, KT (formerly, Korea Telecom), Philippine Long Distance Telephone, Telekom Malaysia Bhd and Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications.