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ASTCA and BlueSky American Samoa provide telephones, Internet, and television into a market with 31.3% Internet uptake.

American Samoa's primary link to the world is the ASH (American Samoa Hawaii) Cable, owned by Bluesky. ASH started out life as PacRim East, a two-pair fibre optic cable with electrical repeaters, capable of 560 mbps per pair that linked Hawaii and New Zealand. In 2009 the decommissioned cable was cut and dragged to Pago Pago, and brought back into service. A short extension called the SAS cable was built to connect American Samoa with Samoa, 125 km to the west. The ASH Cable has been operating at capacity for several years, and both carriers supplement cable capacity with satellite links on O3b, which terminate in Hawaii.

ASTCA has signed a contract with Hawaiki Cable Company to built a branch unit from Pago Pago to Hawaiki's upcoming New Zealand to Hawaii cable. Bluesky expects to take new capacity from the Tui Cable, a Samoa to Fiji cable being financed by the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank.


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