Tonga was reconnected to the world on Tuesday following repairs to a submarine cable, officials said, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation.
“People on the main island will have access almost immediately,” Tonga Cable chief executive James Panuve told Reuters by telephone, after a repair ship handed over the restored cable Tuesday afternoon.
School chaplain Penisimani Akauola Tonga was among those getting back online for the first time since the disaster struck the tiny island nation in mid January.
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