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Residents reported services were quickly coming back online, email seemed blazingly fast after 38 days in the internet doldrums and a slew of calls from family overseas were coming in -- their voices now heard loud and clear.
Via Radio New Zealand The Southern Cross Cable cut during the volcanic eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai and subsequent tsunami last month has been finally repaired. Tonga Cable Limited chair Samuiela Fonua confirmed that the cable was restored and handed over to his company just before midday today. He said he was very pleased to get the restored cable which resumes Tonga's phone and internet fully today after they had limited internet for a month.
Internet connection was restored in Tonga on Tuesday, five weeks after a massive volcanic eruption shredded the undersea cable that connects the Pacific nation with the rest of the world.
The Southern Cross Cable cut during the volcanic eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai and subsequent tsunami last month has been finally repaired.
Tongans have struggled with makeshift satellite services as repairs to undersea cable connecting Tonga to the world were made