VNPT to joins construction of Asia-Pacific Gateway
VGP – The Government chief recently agreed with a proposal put forward by the Việt Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) to take part in building the Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG), an international undersea cable system.
The
PM required VNPT to work closely with other relevant ministries and agencies to
follow the project.
The
submarine cable network will connect the following economies:
The
APG will span about 8,000 km from the
Jointly
invested by China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa
Telecom (Taiwan), NTT Communications (Japan), KT (Republic of Korea), PLDT (Philippines),
Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia) and VNPT (Việt Nam), the system will come
into operation in Q3, 2011.
AGP
will function as an alternative for other existing cable systems.
