Tonga domestic fibre optic cable may take year to replace

Tonga’s domestic telecommunications cable was torn apart by tremendous forces and deeply buried under volcanic debris on the ocean floor…and it may take up to a year to fix. Up to 110km of a special cable

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Bad weather slows search for Fiji end of broken Tonga cable

Progress has been slow in the search for the Fiji end of Tonga’s submarine telecommunications cable – suspected to be broken in several places by the Tonga volcano eruption of last month. Bad weather and

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U.S funding tapped for Pacific undersea cable after China rebuffed

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) will tap a U.S funding facility to construct a Pacific undersea communications cable, two sources told Reuters, after rejecting a Chinese company-led proposal that was deemed a

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Connecting the Pacific :ICT promises and challenges

For the past several months if you are working in business, in government, for regional organisations or studying, you have almost certainly expanded your use of a raft of collaboration and meeting tools. You may have

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Potential for more benefits from new Hawaiki telecom cable

A new deal could potentially provide more Pacific Island countries access to affordable Internet via submarine telecom cable.  The multi-million dollar deal was jointly announced in New Zealand last week by its

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