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Cable Outage Sees Tonga Fall Back To Satellite Internet (zdnet.com)
The subsea cable providing Tonga, a country in the South Pacific Ocean, with broadband, the Tonga Cable, has been out since 20:30 local time on Sunday night, with the nation now relying on satellite internet instead. From a report: Provided by Kacific, the nation's digital connection to the outside world is now a Ku-band satellite accessed through local ISP Ezinet. Tonga Cable Director, Paula Piveni Piukala, said Kacific is working to boost internet and voice capacity for priority communications. "We appreciate Kacific's assistance, as Tonga currently has no other internet or mobile phone connectivity to the outside world," Piukala said. "Kacific's satellite service ensures that essential services can be maintained as we work to resolve the issue."
"For a network that was originally designed to be redundant and robust in case of nuclear war,"
Yes, over the ground for the United States.
"there are large parts of the internet that have remarkably fragile connections "
Yes, small poor countries in the middle of the ocean. They have Ku satellite connections now.