IPS, Inc

IPS, Inc. is a Tokyo based Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed (TSE: 4390) telecommunications company with subsidiaries in Japan, the Philippines and Singapore where we are fully licensed to develop and operate telecom infrastructures. InfiniVAN, a Philippine affiliate of IPS, Inc., is one of the joint-build partners constructing the Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN). The other two partners are Eastern Telecommunications and Globe Telecom. The PDSCN consists of 24 unrepeatered segments and has a total length of approximately 2,500kms -- the longest and newest domestic subsea cable system in the Philippines, connecting provinces in the Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao island groups. The roughly $150 million system is designed to have triple redundant routes in majority of the coverage areas in order to ensure network reliability and resiliency in a natural disaster-prone country. The PDSCN is envisioned to be fully operational in April 2023. A portion called the Express Rout...