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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa Attorney General Mitzie Jessop Taase and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the American Samoa Telecommunication Authority (ASTCA) Fala Sualevai appeared before the House Telecommunication Committee last week to testify on a bill to establish ASTCA as a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At the end of fiscal year 2019, the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority’s “total net position” decreased to $6.08 million compared to $8.56 million at the close of FY 2018, according to the government owned telecom FY 2019 independent financial audit by Oregon-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority’s financial audit for fiscal year 2019, provides financial highlights of the ASG semi-autonomous agency, such as the financing of landing of the Hawaiki submarine fiber optic cable in the territory in 2018
The Hawaiki cable and...
As of yesterday morning, this photo shows the status of the old communications building in Fagatogo that was once the main office of the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority. A crew was seen at the site Monday afternoon starting to take down the building as directed by Gov. Lolo Matalasi...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lolo Administration’s move to merge the Office of Public Information (KVZK-TV) with American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) is “being advanced at this time,” according to the Governor’s executive assistant Iulogologo Joseph Pereira, who is also the ASTCA...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASTCA services on Ofu and Olosega were stabilized on April 16, following several days when ASTCA services were not working properly.
At the present time, landline phone services are working properly and reliably. Broadband internet, mobile voice services (VoLTE), and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —ASTCA services to Ofu and Olosega islands were restored Tuesday after a 10-day outage caused by two unrelated breaks to two different submarine fiber optic cables.
ASTCA anticipates no further outages, but there is more work needed to fully stabilize service to Ofu/...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASTCA crews have confirmed that the submarine fiber optic cable connecting Tutuila and Ofu has been literally broken, near Auasi. It will take time and money to fix that cable break, which happened during extraordinary rough seas about two weeks ago.
Normally, ASTCA can...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority’s current chief executive officer, Lewis Wolman is not renewing his contract and plans to move to the mainland to be close to his family, says ASTCA board chairman Iulogologo Joseph Pereira.
Wolman, former publisher and owner...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In his State of the Territory Address, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga provided for the Fono a summary update on the progress of local telecommunications development in the territory, saying “positive effect was experienced” in FY 2019, after the July 2019 launch of the...