| Market |
| Population: 106,000 (170 islands; 36 inhabited; about two-thirds of the way between Hawaii and New Zealand) |
| Overseas Tongans: 44,000 |
| Languages: English (official); Tongan (official); also Niua fo'ou (700 speakers) |
| A language similar to Tongan used on Niue (population 2,000) |
| 31,000 land line telephones |
| 53,000 cellular phones |
| 9,000 internet users |
| two competing telecommunications companies: TCC = Tonga Telecommunications Corporation |
| and SCT Shoreline Communications Tonga |
| very seismically active area with volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis |