During the debate, Dr Wee Ka Siong said NTT owns the Apricot subsea cable and they are planning a new cable that starts from Japan and it will land in Kuching as well as West Malaysia.
said the new subsea cable will start from Japan, connecting the Philippines and it will also connect Kuching in Sarawak before landing in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Mr Sato said in the call that he needs a big help from Dr Wee Ka Siong to achieve the project.
According to the slide, the project which is currently in the planning phase is expected to be handled by a consortium of 3 or 4 carriers. The laying of the cable is done in a way to avoid disputed territorial waters and it will consist of 16 to 20FP . During the debate, the transport minister referred NTT as the owner of the Apricot cable. He said the upcoming project undersea cable that is planned to pass through Sabah and Sarawak will benefit the country as well as the MyDigital agenda.
The Minister said he wants to bring in investments and expedite negotiations between NTT, Ministry of Communications and Multimedia, Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Therefore, he told Lim Guan Eng not to accuse his ministry of blocking foreign investments.was first announced by Facebook and Google in August 2021 and the 12,000km cable is expected to launch in 2024 with an initial design capacity of more than 190Tbps.
To debunk accusations that the cabotage policy had caused Malaysia to be bypassed by Apricot, the Transport Minister also shared a video of Mr Satothat the subsea project was planned in 2017 and Malaysia was not part of the plan. However, there will be another subsea cable called Mist which will connect Singapore to India, and it will land in Malaysia.
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