Page 27 - Tonga Cable News Today

Its only undersea cable was destroyed in an eruption, cutting it off from the rest of the world.

Telephone links between Tonga and the wider world began to be reconnected on Wednesday, though restoring full internet connectivity is likely to take a month or more according to the owner of the archipelagos sole subsea communications cable.

Phones reconnected in Tonga, internet will have to wait a month

Pacific island state Tonga will be without Internet services for at least a month after a massive volcanic eruption cut the sole international cable link.

Tonga will be able to access a $10 million Asian Development Bank relief facility upon request

The exact damage to the Tonga undersea cable won't be known until the cable repair ship, the Reliance, arrives in Tonga and pulls the cable up out of the sea

Tonga's small outer islands suffered extensive damage from a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with an entire village destroyed and many buildings missing, a Tongan diplomat said on Tuesday (Jan 18), raising fears of more deaths and injuries. "People panic, people run and get injuries. Possibly there will be more deaths and we just pray that is not the case,"...

China Telecom told China Daily on Wednesday that repair ships have been coordinated from Papua New Guinea to fix the submarine cable in Tonga damaged by a massive eruption of an underwater volcano off the island nation, and the repair work may take several weeks.

A telecommunications blackout is further complicating the delivery of aid to the volcano-stricken island.

Tongans could finally make phone contact with their families and the outside world on Thursday, five days after a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami completely cut off the Pacific island nation.