Just swiped it. Not gb.
TrueAnon
Check this out. The volcano in the Pacific took out an Internet line near Tonga.
Internet connection lost
Tonga gets its internet via an undersea cable from Suva in Fiji, which presumably was damaged.
All internet connectivity with Tonga was lost at about 6:40pm local time, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for the network intelligence firm Kentik.
Southern Cross Cable Network, the company that manages the connection, does not know yet "if the cable is cut or just suffering power loss," chief technical officer Dean Veverka said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-16/tsunami-threat-reduced-from-huge-pacific-volcanic-eruption/100759626
Southern Cross Cable Network
In 2013 the New Zealand Herald reported that the owners of the Southern Cross cable had asked the United States National Security Agency to pay them for mass surveillance of New Zealand internet activity through the cable. In May 2014, John Minto, vice-president of the New Zealand Mana Party, alleged that the NSA was carrying out mass surveillance on all meta-data and content that went out of New Zealand through the cable.
In August 2014, Russel Norman, New Zealand Green Party co-leader, stated that an interception point was being established on the Southern Cross Cable. Norman said that as the cable is the only point of telecommunications access from New Zealand, this would allow the Government to spy on all phone calls and internet traffic from New Zealand. Norman's claims followed the revelation that an engineer from the NSA had visited New Zealand earlier in the year to discuss how to intercept traffic on the Southern Cross cable.
The office of John Key, New Zealand Prime Minister, denied the claims but admitted that they were negotiating a "cable access programme" with the NSA but refused to clarify what that was or why the NSA was involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable
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