Globe Telecom has been selected to provide a cable landing station in Davao for the Philippine segment of the Malaysia-US submarine cable system.
Hexa Capital Consultancy has reportedly tapped Globe Telecom to provide a cable landing station for the Philippine segment of its 19,221 km Malaysia-US (MYUS) submarine cable system.
Scheduled to be operational in mid-2028, the MYUS cable system will begin in Sedili, Malaysia, and end in Oregon, United States, with landing stations in Batam, Jakarta and Balik Papan in Indonesia, and Davao in the Philippines. The submarine cable system will provide the first direct link between Malaysia and the United States.
According to local news reports on Thursday, Hexa Capital Consultancy selected Globe Telecom as its local partner because of its experience in building the infrastructure for the Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN).
Globe Telecom, along with Eastern Communications and InfiniVan, is part of the consortium that built the PDSCN for $150 million. At over 2,500 km, it is the longest submarine cable in the Philippines.
Citing a media statement released by Globe Telecom, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that the Philippine mobile operator would provide an existing cable landing station that Hexa would use for an undisclosed fee.
"Our cable landing facilities offer diverse route connectivity to global and regional carriers…Access to customers using our robust state-of-the-art network should give confidence to operators looking to interconnect with domestic and international constituents. Davao is a critical hub for subsea fiber optic cables, which are the backbone of today’s Internet," said KD Dizon, head of Globe Business, as quoted by the Manila Standard.
Circumventing the South China Sea
According to the Philippine Star, Hexa founder and CEO Azhari Abang Hadari said the MYUS cable system would take on a route that avoids disputed waters in Southeast Asia to ensure its operational sustainability.
The MYUS cable system is designed as a 16-fiber-pair system, each with a minimum capacity of 15 Tbit/s, for a total initial capacity of 240 Tbit/s. It is being built with an initial investment of $720 million.
Hexa received a US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) grant in November 2023 to fund a MYUS cable feasibility study, conducted by T Soja & Associates.
The subsea cable system will deliver the additional international capacity needed to support the growing number of data centers in Malaysia, including large hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
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