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3: The Landing Point

                   6.  KUCHING (KG)                                Connections

                   Submarine Cable Station


                                                                   MDSCS

                                                                   Malaysian Domestic Submarine Cable
                                                                   System

















                                                                          SKRM
                   Ready for services in 1995 for Malaysian               Sistem Kabel Rakyat  Malaysia
                   Domestic  Submarine  Cable  System
                   Southern Link (MDSCS-MDS) connecting
                   Borneo, Sarawak to Peninsular Malaysia
                   via Mersing landing Station. This station
                   also one of the submarines cable landing
                                                                                                       SB2 BU
                                                                                                    SB1 BU
                   station that connects between Borneo to                                           SB3 BU  K. Kinabalu
                                                                                                    SB4 BU  S4
                   Miri and Labuan.                                   Cherating  PS1 BU   S5      SR3 BU
                                                                               PS2 BU           SR2 BU  S3  Miri
                                                                                                SR1 BU
                   Advancing  with  SKRM  in  June  2017,                           S1        S2  Bintulu
                   Kuching     has    become      hub    for            Mersing
                   telecommunications     infra   connecting                              Kuching
                   Sarawak and Sabah for both by the sea
                   with TM submarine cable and by land via
                   the Trans Borneo highway.















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