[Starlink] Tonga's international cable is back up

[Ulrich Speidel]

FWIW... this restores connectivity to ~80% of Tonga's population.

The domestic cable may be up to 9 months off, depending on cable lead 
time, apparently it's got to come from France. In the interim, there's 
work on more satellite connectivity, I heard from a satellite ISP in NZ 
today that they were about to ship a few units for Eutelsat links up. I 
haven't heard any further about operational readiness of Starlink, but 
have heard from a well-connected source that the dishys delivered to 
Tonga will remain in Tongan government service in underconnected places 
if and when service becomes available.

I would expect them to hang onto a couple of units for Tongatapu just in 
case there'll be more turbidity currents messing with the cable, heaven 
forbid.

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Dr. Ulrich Speidel

School of Computer Science

Room 303S.594 (City Campus)

The University of Auckland
u.speidel at auckland.ac.nz
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ulrich/
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