This article is about communications systems in American Samoa. In 2009, American Samoa was connected to the Internet using the American Samoa Hawaii Cableundersea cable that increased bandwidth from 20 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. The project used a defunct PacRim East cable built in 1993 that previously connected Hawaii with New Zealand. The cable system now connects Samoa to American Samoa and then to Hawaii where it will connect to global submarine networks. In July 2018, the Hawaiki cable was activated with a branch providing a 200Gb/s connection from Pago Pago to Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, and Oregon.
Telephone
Main lines in use: 10,400 country comparison to the world: 202 Mobile cellular: 2,200 country comparison to the world: 210 Telephone system: domestic: good telex, telegraph, facsimile and cellular telephone services; domestic satellite system with 1 Comsatearth station international:satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat international access code: +1.684
Radio
Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 4 commercial, 4 non-commercial, 2 LPFM, shortwave 0 Radios: 57,000
Internet Service Providers : at least three Internet country code:.as Internet Hosts: 1,923 country comparison to the world: 141 Internet users: NA
Situation in 2016
In 2012 American Samoa had the most expensive internet in the U.S. according to Engadget. Under Governor Togiola Tulafono investment in a fibre optic network to replace aging copper infrastructure across all the islands of American Samoa and the construction in 2015 of a 1.2Gbit/s satellite uplink via O3b Networks which more than doubled available bandwidth to the rest of the world resulted in broadband internet becoming more affordable, with the price of the cheapest available residential package decreasing from $75/month to $50/month and download speeds of the base package increasing from 256kbit/s to 768kbit/s. The improved connectivity to the outside world has revived previously stalled hopes that a call center could be opened in American Samoa, boosting the local economy.
ASTCA Telecommunications Building
The ASTCA Telecommunications Building in Tafuna is the tallest building in American Samoa. Out of the tallest buildings of each U.S. state and territory, the ASTCA Telecommunications Building is the shortest. Construction of the building began in 2009 and ended in 2011.
