2 submarine cable landing points in American Samoa. View coordinates, connected cables, and detailed location info.
American Samoa has two submarine cable landing points located in Pago Pago and Tafuna. These landing points connect the territory to international networks through two operational submarine cables.
The Hawaiki cable, the longest serving American Samoa, became ready for service in 2018 and spans 14,000 kilometers. It connects American Samoa to Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, and the United States. The Samoa-American Samoa (SAS) cable, operational since 2009, is 250 kilometers long and links American Samoa with Samoa. The main internet providers in the territory by user base are the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority, Blue Sky Communications, and Starlink.
The territory is classified as having vulnerable resilience, meaning its connectivity depends on one or two cables. No outages have been recorded by GeoCables in the last 90 days.
Every cable that lands in this country, with live latency on its page.
Cables landing here whose break would hurt this country most, by our cable graph.
No single cable break would cut this country off: alternatives exist for every cable.
| Name | Connected Cables |
|---|---|
| Pago Pago, American Samoa › | 2 |
| Tafuna, American Samoa › | 0 |
Internet status by provider and the resilience of the country's cable connectivity.
American Samoa has 2 submarine cables and 2 landing points in the GeoCables database.
The oldest cable in service is Samoa-American Samoa (SAS) (2009), the newest is Hawaiki (2018).
By our cable graph no single break cuts American Samoa off. The largest effect comes from Hawaiki: up to plus 15.4 ms towards United Kingdom. We count paths and milliseconds, not capacity.
At the last check (2026-11-04 10:07 UTC) the internet in American Samoa was working normally. Providers and history