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- Feb 11, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Asia Direct Cable Enters Service for PLDT
- PLDT announced the Asia Direct Cable's operational and commercial readiness, completing a 9,988-kilometre fibre system linking the Philippines to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and China[1]
- PLDT's 20-F says ADC went into service in February 2025 and took the group's total international capacity to about 100 Tbps[2]
- Consortium co-chair China Telecom declared ADC capacity in service on 14 February 2025, two months ahead of schedule[3]
- NEC built the cable, declared ready for service in December 2024, two years late after delays media reports tied mostly to permits; the consortium is China Telecom, China Unicom, National Telecom, PLDT, Singtel, SoftBank, Tata Communications and Viettel[4]
- PLDT spent US$75 million on the Philippine link and landed the shore end at its Nasugbu, Batangas cable station in November 2022[5][6]
- PLDT pitches ADC as the shortest route into its VITRO Sta. Rosa hyperscale data centre and an intra-Asia complement to the trans-Pacific Jupiter cable[1]
Notable features
- Length: 9,988 km, with landings at Nasugbu (Philippines), Tuas (Singapore), Chung Hom Kok (Hong Kong), Maruyama (Japan), Quy Nhon (Vietnam), Sri Racha (Thailand) and Shantou (China)[1][6]
- Design capacity: more than 160 Tbps over eight fibre pairs[4]
- Transmission: at least 200G DWDM per wavelength[6]
- Adds more than 100 Tbps to PLDT's international capacity[1]
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- [1]90%main.pldt.com/article/asia-direct-cable-boosts-pldts-international-connectivity-hyperscalers-multinationalmain.pldt.com· Posted Sep 24, 2026· Starts Feb 11, 2025 ✓· 57% of score
PLDT's[5][6] release of 11 February 2025 announces the cable 'marking its operational and commercial readiness', and PLDT's 20-F for 2025 (reference 1) states 'In February 2025, ADC went into service'.
- [2]92%PLDT Form 20-F for fiscal year 2025 (SEC)sec.gov· Published Apr 27, 2026· 32% of score
PLDT's[1][5][6] annual report on Form 20-F states 'In February 2025, ADC went into service' and that ADC 'reached operational and commercial readiness in the first quarter of 2025', lifting total international capacity to about 100 Tbps.
- [3]85%China Telecom's Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Capacity Enters Service Ahead of Scheduleprnewswire.com· Published Feb 14, 2025· 6% of score
Consortium co-chair China Telecom announced on 14 February 2025 that ADC capacity was officially in service two months ahead of plan, after the wet segment's ready-for-service in late 2024.[1]
- [4]80%ADC cable ready for service with 160 Tbps of new intra-Asia capacitydevelopingtelecoms.com· Published Dec 20, 2024· 5% of score
Reports NEC finished building the 9,400 km, eight-fibre-pair ADC, declared ready for service in December 2024 and owned by a consortium that includes PLDT[1][5][6].
- [5]85%PLDT Bolsters PH Digital Advantage, Completes Landing of Asia Direct Cable System PH Segmentmain.pldt.com· Published Nov 25, 2022· 0% of score
PLDT's[1][6] release on landing the shore-end segment at its Nasugbu, Batangas cable station, which also hosts SEA-ME-WE3 and APCN-2.
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