Third undersea cable to plug Cambodia into data fast lane
The Cambodian government has contracted the private sector to build a third submarine communications cable linking Cambodia to a major international telecommunications artery in a bid to significantly increase internet speed while helping to bring down prices.
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunication signed a 25-year concession agreement with Cambodia Fiber Optic Cable Network on 2 March to build a landing station in Sihanoukville and lay an underwater fibre-optic cable that patches into the existing AAE-1 cable, one of the main high-speed data conduits linking Asian, African and European countries.
