The manufacturing phase of Tonga's second international undersea telecommunications cable, a 383-kilometre branch of the Hawaiki Cable system, is now complete and the cable has been loaded onto a freighter en route to Tonga, the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the. The manufacturing phase of Tonga's second international undersea telecommunications cable, a 383-kilometre branch of the Hawaiki Cable system, is now complete and the cable has been loaded onto a freighter en route to Tonga, the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the. With reliable digital connectivity vital to Tonga's economy, the AIFFP is working with partners to provide critical redundancy for Tonga's undersea cable network. We're working with the Governments of Tonga and New Zealand to build a new international undersea telecommunications cable to Tonga. 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. In my previous analysis from August 2024, I explored the vulnerability of Tonga's fiber optic submarine cable infrastructure, proposing satellite broadband as a more resilient connectivity solution. Not a metro area, not a data center cluster — a sovereign nation of roughly 105,000 people, spread across an archipelago of more than 150 islands in the South Pacific, whose international connectivity depends on a. Tonga has reached a major milestone in its digital infrastructure upgrade.