Groundbreaking ceremony held for Infinivan’s cable landing station in northern Philippines
CLS is located in Baler, Aurora Province
By Jason Ma | Data Center Dynamics | August 13, 2025
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A groundbreaking ceremony was held for a cable landing station in northern Philippines operated by Infinivan, a Filipino subsidiary of Japanese telco IPS.
The CLS is located in Baler, Aurora Province. It is a municipality on the eastern coast of Luzon, the country’s largest constituent island.
Last Wednesday’s ceremony was attended by the vice governor of Aurora Province Sid Pimentel Galban, the chief representative of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sagawa Hiroshi, and the director of the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission, Imelda Walcien.
An estimated completion time was not provided. It is also unclear which specific cables will be connected to the station once completed.
Construction will be undertaken by Taisei Philippine Construction, the Filipino wing of the Japanese Taisei Corporation.
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Phillip Varilla, the Assistant Secretary for Infostructure Management at the Department of Information and Communications Technology, said: “A Cable Landing Station is a very important facility because it provides us alternatives as well as more internet capacity going to the Philippines.
“It also helps not just the provision of digital connectivity but also data centers. It connects data centers inside the Philippines to all over the world.”
A substantial portion of the Philippines’ subsea cables are located on its western coast, which touches the South China Sea. Baler faces the Pacific.
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Details were not shared about prospective customers. Baler is currently connected to Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN), which links the Philippines to Taiwan and California, US.
Another cable, Apricot, which will be jointly operated by Chunghwa Telecom, Google, Meta, NTT, and Filipino telco PLDT, will connect Baler from Singapore to Japan by 2027.
Infinivan jointly operates the Philippines Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN), which connects the archipelago nation’s various islands. In April, it began operating a CLS for the PDSCN in Surigao, a northern city on the island of Mindanao.
The telco has a consumer network business in the Philippines. It was recently chosen to establish a fiber network for Cebu, and according to the Philippine Star, is eyeing an IPO sometime between the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026.
IPS, the Japanese parent company, also provides telco services internationally and in its domestic market of Japan.
Source: Data Center Dynamics
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