| Market |
| Population: 6,187,591 (600 islands; 36 inhabited; about two-thirds of the way between Hawaii and New Zealand) |
| Overseas Tongans: 44,000 |
| Languages: Hiri Motu (official); Tok Pisin (official); English (official) over 800 other languages in use |
| Very poor communications infrastructure even in cities |
| 60,000 land line telephones |
| 900,000 cellular phones |
| 125,000 internet users |
| very seismically active area with volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis |