Construction on submarine cable yet to begin

2 January 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Communications / Communications infrastructure / Economy and commerce / Foreign investors / Infrastructure / Internet / Investment
AAG / AEC / ASEAN Economic Community / Asia-America Gateway / Ezecom / Gulf of Thailand / Malaysian aid / Pahang / Paul Blanche-Horgan

Web surfers and social-media addicts will have to hold out longer in the wait for Cambodia to boost its internet speeds, as construction on the Kingdom’s first submarine internet cable is behind schedule.

Paul Blanche-Horgan, CEO of Ezecom, Cambodia’s largest internet provider, confirmed yesterday that the $80 million project would more likely be operational by the first quarter of 2015 rather than by the end of this year, a timeline first announced in June. …

The 1,425-kilometre cable will run between landing stations in Preah Sihanouk province and Kuantan, the state capital of Pahang in Malaysia, where it will link into the Asia-America Gateway (AAG), a 20,000-kilometre cable linking Southeast Asia to the United States. …

The AAG currently connects Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii to the west coast of the United States. …

 Eddie Morton
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