Telcotech leads race for undersea cable
Telcotech, a subsidiary of local internet provider Ezecom, announced on October 25 that it is nearing completion of Cambodia’s first submarine fibre-optic cable, which it expects to be operational by early next year. The Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand submarine cable system will connect the three countries directly and link in to the Asia-America Gateway, an existing 20,000-kilometre-long undersea data highway that connects the Far East to the United States. Yves Schaeffer, CEO of Ezecom and Telcotech, said the landing stations had been built in the three countries and preparations were now underway to lay the cable on the seafloor. The cable project is being carried out with Symphony Communication of Thailand and Telekom Malaysia, and is being built by Chinese submarine network provider Huawei Marine Networks. “We signed onto a consortium with Malaysia and Thailand in May 2015 and the cable construction has been undertaken since then and is expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2017,” Schaeffer told reporters.
