Communications restored to Tonga a month after volcanic eruption and tsunami

Tongans have struggled with makeshift satellite services as repairs to undersea cable connecting Tonga to the world were made

Tonga has been reconnected to the world following repairs to a submarine cable, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation.

People on the main island will have access almost immediately," the Tonga Cable chief executive, James Panuve, told Reuters by telephone, after a repair ship handed over the restored cable on Tuesday afternoon.