Telecommunications in American Samoa

[1][2] The project used a defunct PacRim East cable built in 1993 that previously connected Hawaii with New Zealand.

[6] Under Governor Togiola Tulafono investment in a fibre optic network to replace aging copper infrastructure across all the islands of American Samoa[7] and the construction in 2015 of a 1.2 Gbit/s satellite uplink via O3b Networks which more than doubled available bandwidth to the rest of the world[8] resulted in broadband Internet service becoming more affordable, with the price of the cheapest available residential package decreasing from $75/month to $50/month and download speeds of the base package increasing from 256 kbit/s to 768 kbit/s.

[9] The improved connectivity to the outside world has revived previously stalled hopes that a call center could be opened in American Samoa, boosting the local economy.

The Aleki Sene, Sr. Telecommunications Center[12] in Tafuna is the tallest building in American Samoa (it is 4 stories tall).

[13] Out of the tallest buildings of each U.S. state and territory, the Aleki Sene, Sr. Telecommunications Center is the shortest.