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. ion in Tonga's outer Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP), and Government of island, Vava'u. The second undersea cable will provide New Zealand have co-financed a second international a more reliable service to the public and complement undersea telecommunicatio s cable, which was the Tonga Cable. Tonga Cable Limited (TCL) owns and manages the fibre-optic submarine cable, connecting Tonga to Fiji, which was commissioned in August 2013. The Tonga-Fiji Submarine Cable System (also known as Tonga Cable) is a 827km fiber optic submarine cable system linking Nuku'alofa, Tonga and Suva, Fiji, and connects to the Southern Cross Cable Network at the Suva Cable Landing Station in Fiji. The Tonga-Fiji Submarine Cable System is owned and. The development objective of the Pacific Regional Connectivity Program (the Program) is to reduce the cost and increase the availability of international bandwidth for participating countries and thereby facilitate the development of a wide range of ICT applications to support social and economic. Tonga has secured a new direct connection to a major transpacific cable system following the landing of the Hawaiki Tonga subsea cable in Vava'u, strengthening the country's international connectivity and network resilience.
