By Cassandra Lee, InterAksyon.com

PLDT plans first international cable landing station in Mindanao MANILA – The country’s largest telecom company plans to build an international cable landing station in Mindanao. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) president Napoleon L. Nazareno said the company is holding discussions with potential foreign partners for the new landing station that will link Mindanao to the U.S. “We are in discussion with the new one. We would like to have something in Mindanao because we already have three landing stations in Luzon,” Nazareno said. “Hopefully, towards the end of the year or early next year it would be finalized,” he said. The new international cable landing station will help address growth in demand for data. The Mindanao station will be PLDT’s fifth in the country after the Asia-America Gateway, the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 and the Japan-U.S. Cable System. The Asia Submarine Cable Express upgrade is ongoing. InterAksyon.com is the online news portal of TV5, which is part of the PLDT Group.