Tonga Cable System is a submarine fiber-optic cable system connecting Tonga with Fiji, where it connects to other international networks. It is 827 kilometres (514 mi) long and was activated in 2013. It has cable landing points at Sopu, a suburb of Nukuʻalofa in Tonga, and Suva, Fiji. There is almost nothing else in the measurement. The internet is kind of like drinking water, says UC Berkeley Professor Nicole. On January 15, 2021, Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai – a volcano located 65 kilometres north of Tongatapu, Tonga's main island – spectacularly erupted, killing at least three people and sending an ash plume high into the atmosphere. The blast devastated nearby islands, covering them in ash and triggering. Tonga is once again experiencing a digital blackout following a new break in its domestic fibre-optic submarine communications cable, caused by a series of strong earthquakes near the Ha'apai island group.
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