Manila  - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo inaugurated on Tuesday the Philippine leg of a 550-million-dollar fiber optic cable network that will connect several South-East Asian countries with the United States.

The 20,000-kilometre Asia American Gateway (AAG) network will link Malaysia to the US via Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and the US West Coast through an undersea cable system.

The network is scheduled to be completed within the year.

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