Submarine cable incident record
Tonga Cable — Confirmed — 2022-01-15
Digicel confirms two undersea breaks affecting Tonga and activates a ship for assessment.
Confirmed
- Public classification
- Confirmed
- Affected cable or system
- Tonga Cable
- Affected countries
- Tonga
- Region
- Oceania and the Pacific
- Network state
- Network signal stale
- Physical state
- Physical fault confirmed by report
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Network record became stale: — physical state unchanged.
Original supporting evidence
- A preliminary technical fault investigation has established that there are two separate undersea cable breaks.
- International cable cut 37kms off Nuku'alofa, and the domestic one cut 47km offshore.
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.