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The women of ASTCA’s Finance Division, wearing pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (Pinktober), while closing off their Customer Service Week. [photo: courtesy]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three senators have sponsored legislation, which creates by law, the “American Samoa Telecommunications Corporation Authority” — still referred to with the acronym “ASTCA” — and “shall in no way [be] considered an agency or semi-autonomous agency” of ASG.
The bill is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) sharing with two other ASG entities, revenues earned from the Hawaiki cable capacity sale, adds an additional burden on ASTCA to operate, according to the authority’s chief executive officer, Lewis Wolman, who noted...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) chief executive officer Lewis Wolman told the Fono’s Joint Budget Committee that ASTCA is “unapologetic”for the many consultants mentioned in the agency’s proposed FY 2020 budget.
Wolman made the statement as part of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) is forecasting a “positive operating position in 2020”, with significant growth forecasted for mobile service revenue that is consistent with investment in 2019, according to ASTCA’s FY 2020 summary information...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) has been awarded more than $14 million in US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) funding over the next 10-years for maintaining, improving, and expanding affordable broadband, the FCC announced last week...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tuesday’s launching of a new digital platform 3D Hologram at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has been labeled a “historic” moment in the territory, with ASCC president, Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi Pato saying it’s “history in the making as we move forward in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has proposed legislation which will earmark and allocate revenues from bandwidth sale of the American Samoa branch of the Hawaiki Submarine cable, which is overseen by the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA).
The Administration’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA and Honolulu, HAWAI’I — American Samoa Community College on Tuesday switched on a ground-breaking new digital platform that will stream 3D holograms of UH academics to deliver classes and engage with ASCC students in real-time.
Running on Hawaiki transpacific submarine...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A “Transition Plan” is being developed for the proposed merging of KVZK-TV — the Office of Public Information — with the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA), according to ASTCA board chairman Iulogologo Joseph Pereira.
Reports of KVZK-TV coming under the...



![ASTCA chief executive officer, Lewis J. Wolman testifying Tuesday before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. [photo: FS] ASTCA chief executive officer, Lewis J. Wolman](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/wolman_3315.jpg?itok=R8NICQtr)
![ASTCA chief executive officer, Lewis Wolman (right) and chief financial officer, Fala Sualevai during the ASTCA FY 2020 budget hearing yesterday. [photo: FS] ASTCA chief executive officer, Lewis Wolman (right) and chief financial officer, Fala Sualevai](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/astca_boss_3306.jpg?itok=iXNbfLOL)

![Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi Pato, president of the American Samoa Community College, during her remarks Tuesday at the Hologram launching ceremony in the ASCC Multi Purpose Center Building. [photo: FS] Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi Pato](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_3190.jpg?itok=49I8keuu)
![Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga [SN file photo] Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lolo_2833_web_9.jpg?itok=AWuF9wE5)
![The livestream 3D hologram of University of Hawaii president Dr David Lassner, speaking yesterday to a small group of VIPs and others, during the official launch of the HoloCampus at the Hologram classroom on the second floor of the ASCC Multi Purpose Building. The live hologram was streamed from the UH campus in Honolulu. At the same time, a separate video broadcast from inside the classroom was shown on the large screen for the audience inside the auditorium at the ASCC-MPB. [photo: FS] The livestream 3D hologram of University of Hawaii president Dr David Lassner](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/holocampus.jpg?itok=_bqDC8bo)
