Re: Coverage of the .to internet outage

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

If you're a small pacific island nation state with a limited budget, and a
working submarine cable, maintaining a SCPC geostationary satellite service
that might be $20,000 a month (on 36-60 month term) in transponder kHz may
seem like a very large ongoing expense.

Ideally it would be possible to keep a backup circuit operating in a very
narrow section of kHz during normal times. Along with the contractual
ability to significantly expand it on demand, but more capacity on the same
satellite/same polarity without physical reconfiguration of the remote end
earth station may not always be possible.



On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 15:50, Scott Weeks <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:

> --- jra () baylink com wrote:
> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
>
> This piece:
>
>
> https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073863310/an-undersea-cable-fault-could-cut-tonga-from-the-rest-of-the-world-for-weeks
>
> drills down to this piece with slightly more detail:
>
>
> https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/undersea-cable-fault-could-cut-off-tonga-rest-world-weeks-2022-01-18/
>
> I'm told their national carrier is trying to bring in a ground station as
> well, though not whom it will connect to.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> It's hard to imagine they don't have a lot of Kacific Terminals or other
> satellite connectivity there.
>
> That's what most of the South Pacific uses and all used before the cables
> were laid.  Maybe the journalists
> missed that like they miss things when talking about our stuff?
>
> scott