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PLDT's[1][5][6] 2 April 2025 release says its leaders 'recently inaugurated the Digos cable landing station' without a date; Data Center Dynamics' report of 24 March 2025 (reprinted by SubTel Forum[3], reference 1) already says PLDT 'has launched' it, so the ceremony was on or before 24 March.- Start
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PLDT Opens Apricot Cable Landing Station in Digos
PLDT inaugurated its Digos, Davao del Sur landing station for the 12,000-kilometre Apricot cable, one of two Philippine landings that give PLDT routes facing the Pacific rather than the West Philippine Sea.
- PLDT Enterprise leaders, with officials from the DICT, NTC, DENR and Digos City, inaugurated the Digos cable landing station in Davao del Sur[1]
- Digos is one of two Philippine landings of the Apricot cable; the other is in Baler, Aurora[1][3]
- PLDT had finished laying the Baler and Digos branches in March 2025; its COO says the route also gives PLDT's domestic network resiliency between Luzon and Mindanao[4]
- The NTC authorised both stations in July 2023, when they were targeted for end-2025[5]
- PLDT is investing US$80 million in Apricot, a consortium with Google, Meta, NTT and Chunghwa Telecom[3][6]
- PLDT said the whole system was slated for 2027, held up by work in Indonesian waters[2]