If you're a small pacific island nation state with a limited budget, and a working submarine cable, maintaining a SCPC geostationary satellite service that might be $20,000 a month (on 36-60 month term) in transponder kHz may seem like a very large ongoing expense.
Ideally it would be possible to keep a backup circuit operating in a very narrow section of kHz during normal times. Along with the contractual ability to significantly expand it on demand, but more capacity on the same satellite/same polarity without physical reconfiguration of the remote end earth station may not always be possible. On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 15:50, Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: > > --- j...@baylink.com wrote: > From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <j...@baylink.com> > > This piece: > > > https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073863310/an-undersea-cable-fault-could-cut-tonga-from-the-rest-of-the-world-for-weeks > > drills down to this piece with slightly more detail: > > > https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/undersea-cable-fault-could-cut-off-tonga-rest-world-weeks-2022-01-18/ > > I'm told their national carrier is trying to bring in a ground station as > well, though not whom it will connect to. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > It's hard to imagine they don't have a lot of Kacific Terminals or other > satellite connectivity there. > > That's what most of the South Pacific uses and all used before the cables > were laid. Maybe the journalists > missed that like they miss things when talking about our stuff? > > scott > >
