Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Territorial Broadband Strategy (ASTBS) Working Group, a project of the local Commerce Department invites the public to participate in a brief survey on Broadband developments in American Samoa.

Survey information will be used to understand the landscape, opportunities, challenges, usage, quality, affordability, and access to broadband in the territory, according to an ASTBS announcement.

The survey, which is voluntary, will take 4 minutes to complete. And if you prefer not to answer a question, you may skip that question and if you prefer not to complete the survey you can disregard it.

Samoa News staff took the survey yesterday in an effort to help with any improvements to internet service on island provided by ASTCA and Bluesky. And the survey asks simple but pertinent questions on internet service use as well as mobile service. At the end of the survey, it asks for your name at the end of the survey, but that’s also voluntary and you can skip it as it’s not required.

“The results of this survey will help us identify priorities, challenges and opportunities and key strategies for the ASTBS,” the Working Group said, and emphasized that all individual data collected will be kept “confidential”.

It says that data will be made available to the working group and authorized agencies for analysis. The data, in summary form, will be used in the Territorial Broadband Strategy, reports and publications and shared with the participating organizations and individuals upon request.

The survey is currently available on the ASD-DOC facebook page.

Questions or Concerns: Please contact Michael McDonald or H. Gingerlei Porter at (astbs@doc.as).