Malaysia’s LitUp Network, alongside Stavian Group and Tokyo-based Midas Capital, is a shareholder in the MViSTA undersea cable project and will be responsible for laying the 2,500-km cable. (LitUp Network pic)HANOI: Developers of a new US-backed undersea data cable linking Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand will this month select a cable supplier between Japan's NEC and France's Alcatel Submarine Networks, a project executive told Reuters.

The 16-fibre-pair MViSTA cable is expected to enter service in late 2028 with an estimated cost of about US$400 million, said Mark Procter, deputy head of Stavian High Tech Infrastructure, a unit of Vietnamese conglomerate Stavian Group and one of the project's developers.