<story><title>Geek heroes rescue Tonga from worst case fibre optic cable blackout</title><url>https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/26/geek-heroes-rescue-tonga-worst%20case</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>This is great news and I am glad to see it.&lt;p&gt;Internet access is a big deal for Tonga and they went to pains to establish good internet access to begin with, which articles about the crisis seem to not really make very clear:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s how a tiny Pacific island got better Internet than the US&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pri.org&amp;#x2F;stories&amp;#x2F;2014-08-01&amp;#x2F;heres-how-tiny-pacific-island-got-better-internet-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.pri.org&amp;#x2F;stories&amp;#x2F;2014-08-01&amp;#x2F;heres-how-tiny-pacifi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Geek heroes rescue Tonga from worst case fibre optic cable blackout</title><url>https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/26/geek-heroes-rescue-tonga-worst%20case</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Temporary access via fixed aim vsat terminal and geostationary C or Ku band transponder capacity is actually a lot more expensive than o3b services, in $ per Mbps. But an o3b terminal is much costlier in terms of initial purchase cost, and perhaps this project doesn&amp;#x27;t meet the Mbps threshold or contract term length to make it worthwhile.</text></comment>