Tuvalu ISP
Creation: Thursday, 23 September 1999 / Last Update: Thursday, 27 April 2000
Background
Tuvalu is a Pacific Island Country with a total population of 10,000 people. It is composed of 9 atolls where the capital is on Funafuti atoll.
Telecommunications in Tuvalu are mainly satellite based between atolls and with the rest of the World. Tuvalu Telecom Corporation has just upgraded its phone network with a digital link between Funafuti and Telecom New Zealand. The digital link allows now Tuvalu to use it to route internet packets up to New Zealand.
Apart from a few expatriates and know-how people that dial overseas Internet Service Providers at International telecommunication costs, there has been no internet connectivity offered to the vast majority.
The government of Tuvalu has decided to jump into the Internet revolution, partly because the Tuvalu Domain Name .tv is of high commercial value, and partly because Internet could be a way to develop the country as well as put it on the map.
Tuvalu first requested SOPAC to study how to interlink government departments, then based on SOPAC recommendations the government approached UNDP to help them get the Internet starting in Tuvalu. Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) agreed to fund the project and contracted SOPAC as the implementation agency.
Setting up an ISP
- Pre- requsites and schedules
- Equipment
- IP Addresses
- Domain Name
- Equipment Installation and testing in Suva
- Equipment Installation and testing in Funafuti
- Official Opening
The Journal
This is the reporting on what is happening
every day...
The Organisations involved
Tuvalu Government
Tuvalu Telecom Corporation
SOPAC
The South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission is a regional Pacific wide diplomatic body. Its goals are to develop its member countries through applied geosciences. These goals , due to the nature of the Pacific, are only obtainable via better communications with member countries like Tuvalu.
UNDP
APDIP
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