FILE PHOTO: Members of Tonga's Red Cross society set up a temporary tent in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, January 23, 2022. Tonga Red Cross Society/Handout via REUTERS
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tonga was reconnected to the world on Tuesday following repairs to a submarine cable, officials said, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation.
"People on the main island will have access almost immediately," Tonga Cable chief executive James Panuve told Reuters by telephone, after a repair ship handed over the restored cable on Tuesday afternoon.
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