Davao, Philippines

Davao, Philippines is a submarine cable landing point in Philippines (coordinates 7.0800°, 125.6128°). It serves 4 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Philippines's international connectivity infrastructure.

Davao City, officially the City of Davao, is a highly urbanized city in the Davao Region, Philippines. The city has a total land area of 2,443.61 km2 (943.48 sq mi), making it the largest city in the Philippines in terms of land area. It is the third-most populous city in the Philippines after Quezon City and Manila respectively, and the most populous city in Mindanao, in Davao Region, and outside of Metro Manila. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 1,848,947 people. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Davao, Philippines

Cables landing at Davao, Philippines are operated by 12 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Chunghwa Telecom, GTA TeleGuam, Globe Telecom, Google, Hawaiian Telcom, Inligo Networks, Keppel T&T, Lightstorm Telecom, Meta, NTT, and 2 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Davao, Philippines, international traffic can reach 12 countries through 4 cable systems. Destinations include Australia, Guam, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Micronesia, Palau, Philippines and 4 more.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Davao, Philippines in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) (2028) — Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) is an intercontinental submarine cable system connecting Oceania and Southeast Asia and North America, with 10 landing points across 7 countries including Alupang, Guam, Batam, Indonesia, Darwin, NT, Australia, Davao, Philippines and others. Read more →
• Apricot (2025) — APRICOT is a hyperscaler submarine cable lit for service in 2025, connecting eight landings across five countries and one US territory — Minamiboso in Japan, Toucheng in Taiwan, Tuas in Singapore, Batam and Tanjung Pakis in Indonesia, Agat in Guam, Baler and Davao in the Philippines. Read more →
• Bifrost (2025) — BIFROST is the longest submarine cable we monitor. Nineteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight kilometres of fibre, stretched from Jakarta across the Indonesian archipelago, through Davao and Manado in the Philippines, via Tuas in Singapore, out to Alupang in Guam, and then across the full width of the Pacific Ocean to three North American landings — Grover Beach in California, Winema in Oreg Read more →
• SEA-US (2017) — SEA-US is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 6 countries across Southeast Asia, North America, Oceania. With 7 landing points — including Davao, Hermosa Beach, Kauditan, Magachgil, Makaha, and 2 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.