[1] It has cable landing points at Sopu, a suburb of Nukuʻalofa in Tonga, and Suva, Fiji.
[4] On 20 January 2019, the cable broke and disrupted Internet services to Tonga.
[6] A specialist repair ship from SubCom could take days to get to the fault site, as it was deployed from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
It was expected to take at least two weeks to repair the system, assuming no new eruption affected the zone.
[7][8] Repair of the cable to Nukuʻalofa, of which 55 kilometres had disappeared, presumed buried by an underwater avalanche, was completed on 21 February, with testing and recommissioning expected within 24 hours.