01st February 2019 TONGAN The operation team on board the repair ship ‘Reliance’ have estimated that the international undersea cable will be restored by midday tomorrow if all goes according to plan.
CEO of Tonga Cable Limited Mr Edwin Liava’a said it takes up to 18 hours to splice the cable.
“The work to splice the cable on Tonga’s side started at 7am this morning. After the splice, several tests will be conducted which will take up to 10 hours. By midday tomorrow the international submarine cable should be back online if there will be no major complications.”
Communications service providers are likely to then revert back their system to the fibre optic cable by tomorrow evening.
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Issued by the: Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications.