Tonga Finds Itself Connecting Back To The World After A Month

-


It has taken a month for Tonga to be able to reconnect back to the world. A volcanic eruption pushed the country back into stone age, when they could not use internet services.

After a month of struggle, the country has made use of makeshift satellite services as the repairs to the submarine cable. The remote island was hit by an earthquake and tsunami together. The island was hit badly in mid-January.

Tongans have struggled with makeshift satellite services as the repairs to the cable were made.

The repair ship Reliance took 20 days to replace a 92-kilometre (57-mile) section of the 827 km submarine fiber optic cable that connects Tonga to Fiji and other international networks.

The next struggle would be to repair the domestic cable connecting the main island of Tongatapu with outlying islands. These were reportedly worst hit by the Tsunami. This, according to Tonga Cable chief executive James Panuve could take six to nine months.

Another challenge is that the island does not have enough cable to complete this task. However, it is being hoped that communication using interim satellite services to outlying islands would improve after Tonga's networks switched the main island from satellite to fiber. One of two major service providers, Digicel said in a statement all its customers on Tongatapu and Eua islands were connected to the outside world as data connectivity was restored.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why Is Truss Government Looking At Relaxing Immigration Rules?

-
Image
UK is moving towards relaxing labor shortage norms to make up for the windfall in its crucial food industry There are plans in the UK to ease off immigration rules as the country faces issues with labour shortage and need to boost economic growth. There are plans to expand the government’s shortage occupation list in order to fill in crucial vacancies. The best way that the new PM sees is by inviting overseas workers. A range of sectors are facing labor shortage and Ms Truss has been getting requests from the various to ease off immigration restrictions to ease off the labor shortage pressures. Businesses it is told have been frustrated over the visa system for skilled workers of being unresponsive to not fill the windfall. A severe shortage in farming for example needs to be addressed. Such shortages, it seems is looking like it will badly affect food and the farming sector. The first one to be helped would be the seasonal workers’ programme. Similarly, those in dire need will nee...
Read more

How University Of Glasgow Is Reviving The Art of Knitting

-
Image
There are ways and then there are more ways to keep our traditions alive. A university in the UK has found a novice way of keeping the tradition of knitting alive, by launching a book on knitting patterns based on the architecture of the university. The University of Glasgow has collated a book of such patterns that were invited from designers from all over Scotland and are based on the ‘iconic’ cloisters on the Gilmorehill campus and the ‘modernism’ of the library. The university has gone ahead and also employed knitter who resides with the university and will help in creating the patterns.  Staff and students have been alike, invited to take part in the competition to produce original knitting patterns that are inspired by the university. They have also been encouraged to use Cochno wool. University actually launched its own wool in 2018, called the Cochno that was well received by knitters around the world. The book named as the Knitting The University of Glasgow , is a jo...
Read more

North Korean Construction Workers Run For Their Lives From Russia

-
Image
While North Koreans make for a large population of migrant workers, the pressure to lose their lives working in the war-ravaged Ukraine has left them scared In a surprising revelation, North Korean construction workers are discovering that they are in fact been employed to be sent to Ukraine from Russia. Fearing for their lives, these migrant workers are now running for their lives as none would want to the ongoing war-ravaged country. The ongoing war has led to massive loss of lives and infrastructure, which Russia is on its own volition deciding to rebuild, employing migrant workers from North Korea . The same construction migrants are now running into hiding fearing for their lives. 'After getting the news that the workers would soon be moved to a new construction site in Ukraine, and needed to settle everything by the end of September, many have escaped. It's not only the construction workers, but also management officials escaping,' an unnamed source told the pub...
Read more