NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga: Tonga has been plunged into virtual cyber darkness after an undersea cable broke, cutting off the Pacific island kingdom from almost all cellphone and Internet services.
While life without the Internet may be considered a paradise for many, Tonga relies heavily on links with the outside world for daily supplies and vital tourist earnings, and faced “an absolute disaster” as officials struggled to fix the problem.
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