The Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1 Malaysia (SKR1M) is a 3700km  optical fiber submarine cable system connecting Cherating, Kota Kinabalu, Miri, Bintulu, Kuching and Mersing, a domestic submarine cable system connecting Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

SKR1M was established through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) collaboration between Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) and the Malaysian Government through the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), under a 20-year agreement. TT dotCom Sdn Bhd (TTdC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIME dotCom Berhad (TIME) also funded and owns a portion of this submarine cable.

The parties signed agreements in early 2015. The establishment of the SKR1M submarine cable system is part of the Malaysian Government’s initiatives to increase the capacity of high-speed broadband, as outlined in the national budgets for 2014 and 2015.

SKR1M was built with the objective of enhancing the existing domestic submarine cable connectivity between Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, thus catering for future bandwidth growth requirements.

According to MCMC information, the cable laid in the project contains 12 fiber pairs, with 2 of the twelve pairs used for the SKR1M cable.

The SKR1M cable system is designed with two fiber pairs for an initial system capacity of 4 Tbps, upgradeable to a minimum of 12.8 Tbps.

NEC is the supplier of the SKR1M submarine cable system. 

The SKR1M submarine cable system was ready for service in September 2017.