All international services have been disrupted.
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TVL Customer Information. All International Services have been disrupted since Sat 15th Jan 2005. Further advice will be given. TVL.
TVL is our sole telecommunications company. And that is the message they've been sending on all mobile phones throughout our little country Vanuatu. What it means is that since last Saturday, we cant call or receive calls from overseas and neither could we email or receive emails. The internet is now working obviously. But not the phones or fax machines nor even the ATM machines for foreign currencies which can be a pain for the average tourist visiting the fire isalnds.
All local calls can be made. The problem is as soon as we want to make an international call.
What happened? Apparently a satellite is fucked, and that's the root of the problem. What are they gonna do about it? Well we hve no idea. They keep passing on the radio what the problem is, but they're not saying what they'll do about it. At least the internet is working now.
Vanuatu isnt the only country that's literally cut out of the world because of that incident. New Caledonia too seems to be in the same position. I dont know about countries in the rest of the Pacific.
This is really annoying for businesses. I hope it doesnt last for long...
TVL is our sole telecommunications company. And that is the message they've been sending on all mobile phones throughout our little country Vanuatu. What it means is that since last Saturday, we cant call or receive calls from overseas and neither could we email or receive emails. The internet is now working obviously. But not the phones or fax machines nor even the ATM machines for foreign currencies which can be a pain for the average tourist visiting the fire isalnds.
All local calls can be made. The problem is as soon as we want to make an international call.
What happened? Apparently a satellite is fucked, and that's the root of the problem. What are they gonna do about it? Well we hve no idea. They keep passing on the radio what the problem is, but they're not saying what they'll do about it. At least the internet is working now.
Vanuatu isnt the only country that's literally cut out of the world because of that incident. New Caledonia too seems to be in the same position. I dont know about countries in the rest of the Pacific.
This is really annoying for businesses. I hope it doesnt last for long...
And since you've got internet you could use some of the online phones to call people that you otherwise couldn't. Or email, instant message, blog, etc. I guess your not really isolated after all 
