Re: Coverage of the .to internet outage

["Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>]

--- jra () baylink com wrote:
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>

This piece:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073863310/an-undersea-cable-fault-could-cut-tonga-from-the-rest-of-the-world-for-weeks

drills down to this piece with slightly more detail:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/undersea-cable-fault-could-cut-off-tonga-rest-world-weeks-2022-01-18/

I'm told their national carrier is trying to bring in a ground station as 
well, though not whom it will connect to.
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It's hard to imagine they don't have a lot of Kacific Terminals or other satellite connectivity there.

That's what most of the South Pacific uses and all used before the cables were laid.  Maybe the journalists
missed that like they miss things when talking about our stuff?

scott