The Apricot submarine cable system is a 12,000-km-long direct cable between Japan and Singapore, which gives telecommunication companies alternate routes that do not traverse the usual West Philippine Sea waters.

Mar 18, 2025

PLDT Inc, a fully integrated telco company from the Philippines, has finished the laying of cables for two branches of the 12,000-km-long Apricot submarine cable system that terminate at the newly-constructed landing stations in Baler town of Aurora province and the coastal town of Digos in Davao province of the archipelago.

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The system connects Japan and Singapore with branches in Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Guam, bypassing the South China Sea. It gives telecommunication companies alternate routes that do not traverse the usual West Philippine Sea waters.

The high-capacity direct cable from Singapore to Japan consists of 12 fiber pairs, each having a design capacity of approximately 17.6 Tbit/s, for a total system capacity of approximately 211 Tbit/s.

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As per PLDT, which has invested USD 80 million in the state-of-the-art, fiber-optic system, Apricot increased its international capacity by as much as 33 percent to more than 140 Tbit/s, while strengthening its ability to serve the country’s growing data traffic, and further enhancing the diversity and capacity of its cable system portfolio.