Federal Communications Commission
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been informed that the American Samoa to Hawaii fiber optic link of the American Samoa Hawaii Cable, LLC (or ASH Cable system) was decommissioned last summer while the link connecting the two Samoas remains in service...
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...

![ASH Cable chief executive officer, Paul Young told a House committee hearing last August that the American Samoa to Hawaii link was decommissioned in June last year and that American Samoa’s fiber optic link to Hawaii and the US is now provided by Hawaiki cable. [SN file photo] ASH Cable chief executive officer, Paul Young](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/paul_youngweb_0.jpg?itok=gOegjKyP)