What is the cost of relying on a single cable?
(World News Science)

The Cable Ship Reliance was called on to investigate the recent Tonga cable faults. On the evening of Sunday, 20 January, the Kingdom of Tonga`s primary connection to the Internet was cut. The loss of the 827km submarine cable, which connects Tonga to the global Internet at Fiji, left the 170-island economy isolated from the Internet and unable to connect international voice calls. Internet users in Tonga, who have come to rely on the bandwidth and performance that the 1.6 Tbps Tonga Cable Limited (TCL) provides, immediately felt the pinch, as the significantly lower...