Submarine cable incident record
Tonga Cable — Confirmed — 2022-01-15
Tonga Cable has extensive confirmed damage, with an 80 km gap challenging the ongoing repair.
Confirmed
- Public classification
- Confirmed
- Affected cable or system
- Tonga Cable
- Affected countries
- Tonga
- Region
- Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia
- Network state
- Network signal stale
- Physical state
- Physical fault confirmed by report
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Network record became stale: — physical state unchanged.
Original supporting evidence
- The Tonga end of the cable is broken 36km offshore from Sopu base station
- Last week the ship identified the break to be around 36km offshore from Tonga Cable Ltd’s Sopu station.
Public-network measurements can support a Suspected record but cannot prove a physical cable fault or repair. Network recovery can result from rerouting and does not establish physical repair. Confirm operational decisions with the cable owner or carrier.