Globe Telecom awards $1-M deal to US firm

Globe Telecom has awarded Tyco Electronics Power Systems, Inc. a $1-million (about P53 million) contract to provide the power system for its backhaul transmission equipment and cable landing facilities in Nasugbu, Batangas.

Cable landing facilities are those transmission equipment facing international carriers under the $2-billion City-to-City cable network (C2Ccn) project where Globe has about five percent stake.

C2C is being constructed by C2C Pte. Ltd., a new private cable developer and operator formed by Globe’s principal shareholder Singapore Telecommunication Ltd. (SingTel) which has an approximately 60-percent stake in the undertaking. The local landing facility is scheduled for completion by the fourth quarter of the year.

Backhaul transmission equipment are those deployed by Globe to carry international traffic (voice, data, etc.) to and from Nasugbu to its network.

Globe Telecom is owned by Ayala Corp., SingTel International and Deutsche Telekom Asia. It provides cellular mobile telephone system (CMTS), fixed telephone and international communication services, International Private Leased (IPL) lines, Internet access, VSAT (very small aperture terminal) service, Inter-Exchange Carrier service, Frame Relay, Value-added Network Services (VANS) and other domestic data communications services.

Tyco Electronics Power Systems, headquartered in Mesquite, Texas, USA, is a leading manufacturer of DC power system and board power supplies with more than 100 years of expertise in the field. Tyco Electronics power systems manufactures a wide range of DC power systems for telecommunication market ranging from 7.2 Amps to 1000 Amps. Tyco Electronics Power Systems is a part of Tyco International Ltd., a diversified manufacturing and service company which operates in more than 100 countries with 200,000 employees and had fiscal 2000 sales of $28.9 billion.