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'''[[Country code]] (Top level domain):''' [[.to]]
'''[[Country code]] (Top level domain):''' [[.to]]

Broadband internet communication is provided by the [[Tonga Cable System]] that went online in April 2018.<ref>http://www.looptonga.com/tonga-news/successful-completion-tonga-domestic-cable-system-75063</ref>


==Newspapers==
==Newspapers==

Revision as of 22:16, 23 January 2019

This article is about communications systems in Tonga.

Telephone

Main lines in use: 30,000 (2012)[1]

Telephones - mobile cellular: 56,000 (2012)[2]

Telephone system:

Fixed PSTN, GSM 900
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean))

Radio

Broadcast stations: AM 1 (2005), FM 5 (2005), shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios: 61,000 (1997)

Television

Broadcast stations: 4 (2005)

Televisions: 2,000 (1997)

In April 2002 the Tongasat company started its own satellite telecommunication service when it obtained the Esiafi 1 (former private American Comstar D4) satellite (launched in 1981) that was moved to Tonga's own geostationary point.

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (2005)

Country code (Top level domain): .to

Broadband internet communication is provided by the Tonga Cable System that went online in April 2018.[3]

Newspapers

Until 2002, the Auckland-based Pasifika Times was also circulated in Niue.

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