#PLDT Internet

PLDT has shared with its customers that they may experience service interruptions due to an outage by one of their international submarine cables. PLDT has announced that they are set to invest PHP 3.9 billion in the APRICOT cable system that will connect the Philippines to countries like Japan and Singapore. According to PLDT, their participation in the international undersea cable system will boost its network capacity to service the growing data traffic driven by more digital services and new technology like 5G. Slated to further augment PLDT's international capacity for data traffic, particularly to the US and across Asia and the Pacific, the 12,000-kilometer long cable system will have design capacity of more than 190Tbps connecting the Philippines to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan and Guam. PLDT was recorded as the fastest in 16 out of 17 regions in the Philippines in terms of average fixed download and upload speeds, according to Ookla Speedtest Intelligence data as of Q1 2021. However, PLDT didn't disclose the internet speeds in the regions mentioned. “PLDT has been aggressively expanding our fiber network footprint nationwide, which has been key to the massive and consistent improvement of our internet speeds,” says Butch G. Jimenez, Senior Vice President and Head of PLDT Home Business. Read more in our articles including "PLDT reports possible service interruptions due to cable outage" and "PLDT invests PHP 3.9 billion in new undersea cable system to increase bandwidth".