Tokelau connects everybody

Tokelau’s three atolls have no airport nor harbour and are two days sailing away from Samoa and just two years ago its 1100 Polynesians looked and sounded like they were in another time and space in the past.

Now they have free broadband

Tokelau is, of course, still part of NZ. It’s a great story.

Tokelau has no Internet cafes – in fact it has no cafes at all and its solitary bar, the Luna Liki Hotel on Nukunonu, serves warm beer – when it has any.

But a good Internet wireless service embraces the tiny islands that house the people. The three schools and three hospitals are all online and the service is being upgraded to a high-speed satellite service.