Fiber coming to American Samoa

This story was orignially published on 7 February 2007

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) _ The U-S Interior Department is proposing a three (m) million dollar appropriation to help American Samoa develop an undersea fiber-optic cable link.

Governor Togiola Tulafono has been pushing to have the U-S territory linked to the Southern Cross-owned fiber-optic cable. It runs from the U-S West Coast through Hawaii and Fiji to Australia. American Samoa would hook up in Fiji.

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