Cross-strait undersea cable to pose no national security concerns: NCC
ROC Central News Agency
2011/09/21 21:16:32
By Kuo Yi-chie and Christie Chen
Taipei, Sept. 21 (CNA) The undersea cable that telecom operators across the Taiwan Strait plan to build to link the two sides will pose no national security concerns to Taiwan, the National Communications Commission (NCC) spokesman Chen Cheng-tsang said Wednesday.
Chen was referring to the undersea cable that will link Taiwan's outlying island of Kinmen and China's southeastern coastal city of Xiamen.
He said the cable is just one out of many international cables, and that it has already been approved by the National Security Bureau, the Ministry of Justice and the National Police Agency.
The operators are also planning to avoid using Chinese equipment, so there are no concerns of endangering national security, said Chen.
The NCC earlier in the day gave a green light to the submarine cable, which will be jointly funded and built by Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and three Chinese operators -- China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile.
This will be the first direct cable between Taiwan and China. Communications between the two sides currently have to be re-routed through a third country or via international cables.
The Kinmen-Xiamen cable, scheduled to become operational in March next year, will help lower communication costs across the Taiwan Strait, and will help make communications more convenient and efficient, said Chen.
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