Monday, December 1, 2003

SingTel Completes Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore Cable

Singapore Telecommunications announced the completion of the TIS (Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore) cable network, a joint project with CAT Telecom Public Company Limited (CAT) of Thailand and PT. Telekommunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom). The 1,100 km cable is linked into SingTel's extensive submarine cable networks in Asia Pacific. It will begin to carry commercial traffic with immediate effect. The US$36 million consortium cable system has a capacity of 30 Gbps. NEC Corporation was contracted to build the TIS cable in November 2002.
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