{
  "id": 12186669,
  "title": "Converge’s subsea cables spare Filipinos from internet outage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/converges-subsea-cables-spare-filipinos-from-internet-outage",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-05T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Philippine Star Business",
    "slug": "philippine-star-business",
    "url": "https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/10/06/2561137/converges-subsea-cables-spare-filipinos-internet-outage"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Manila, Philippines - Broadband company Converge ICT Solutions Inc. quickly recovered from internet disruption after a submarine cable to Singapore was severed over the weekend, according to its CEO and co-founder Dennis Anthony Uy. The company avoided subscriber outage by rerouting data traffic through its Bifrost Cable System, a 20,000-kilometer-long network that spans the Pacific Ocean to Guam, Indonesia, Singapore, and the US. Uy emphasized that Converge's earlier investments in this international cable system, alongside the Southeast Asia-Hainan-Hong Kong Express Cable System (SEA-H2X), enabled them to achieve crucial network redundancy during such incidents. The system's capacity to transfer data at 240 terabits per second landed in the Philippines via Davao. Last week, the University of the Philippines Diliman Network Helpdesk reported erratic access due to a fiber cut in a submarine cable to Singapore, hosting their data. Major telcos PLDT Inc. and Globe Telecom Inc. also subscribed to the disrupted cable and rerouted their data traffic to alternative lines, realizing that repairing underwater fiber cuts can take weeks. Subsea cables like Bifrost serve as data transmission pathways between countries, prompting telcos to invest in them to speed up internet traffic and enhance infrastructure resilience. Typically, telcos subscribe to submarine cables connecting to data-hosting countries like Japan, Singapore, and the US.",
  "summary": "Broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. found an immediate return on investment in its new subsea cable to Singapore when it spared subscribers from internet disruption over the weekend.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}