The Local firm Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. stated it has assured local firms that communication lines to the United States will not be disrupted following the 8.9 magnitude quake in Japan. The PLDT says that its Asia America Gatewat is a cable systems that connects directly to the US mainland, it was up 100% since it was able to re-route traffic from troubled cable systems. It said disruption were felt over the weekend in networks using the China-US Cable Network, Japan-US Cable Network, East-Asia Crossing Network, C2C cable system and FLAG cable telecommunications problems to most Intra-Asia and Asia to US connections.
The PLDT VP and Head of Corporate Business Group and SMART Enterprise Sales and Marketing, the performance of AAG affirms the immense value of PLDT’s $50M investment in the critical cable system to ensure business continuity especially for their Enterprise customers to ensure business continuity and vital resiliency particularly for their BPO and Call Center clients who are US-centric. The AAG is a $550 million project composed of 20,000 kilometer-long fiber optic cable network connecting Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Philippines, HongKong can be extended to India, Autralia, Europe and Africa.
In 2009, PLDT joined the consortium. Hernandez said that they are deeply saddened by the tregedy, especially as PLDT has deep Japanese affiliation due to its relationship with NTT.
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