Editing Tokelau (section)

==Telecommunications==
[[File:Tokelau barge.JPG|thumb|A barge leaves the landing ramp in [[Nukunonu]] to collect cargo and passengers from the [[MV Tokelau|MV ''Tokelau'']].]]
Tokelau has a radio telephone service between the islands and to [[Samoa]]. In 1997, a government-regulated telephone service (TeleTok) with three satellite earth stations was established, making Tokelau the last place in the world connected via phone.<ref name="crime">{{Cite web |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/02/1082798/tiny-pacific-island-global-capital-cybercrime/|title=How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime |first=Jacob |last=Judah |date=2 November 2023 |accessdate=10 November 2023 |website=[[MIT Technology Review]] |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]}}</ref> Each atoll has a radio-broadcast station that broadcasts shipping and weather reports and every household has a radio or access to one. News is disseminated through the government [[newsletter]] ''[[Te Vakai]]''.

In 2019, Tokelau agreed to connect to [[Southern Cross Cable]]'s 60&nbsp;Tbps ''NEXT'' subsea cable stretching between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States<ref>{{cite news |last1=Reichert |first1=Corinne |title=Pacific islands sign on for NEXT subsea cable |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/pacific-islands-sign-on-for-next-subsea-cable/ |access-date=7 November 2023 |publisher=ZDNet}}</ref> In September 2021, the island was connected to the new cable<ref>{{cite news |title=Submarine internet cable lands in Tokelau |url=https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/media-and-resources/submarine-internet-cable-lands-in-tokelau/ |access-date=7 November 2023 |work=New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |date=23 September 2021}}</ref> and services were launched in July 2022, granting it access to a network of [[Terabit Ethernet|400GbE]] telecommunications service to datacenters around the world.<ref>{{cite news |title=Southern Cross NEXT Launches! |url=https://www.ciena.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/southern-cross-next-launches! |access-date=7 November 2023 |work=ciena.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.crn.com.au/news/southern-cross-next-cable-completed-579953 |title=Southern Cross NEXT cable completed |date=5 May 2022 |website=crn.com.au|access-date=7 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729090434/https://www.crn.com.au/news/southern-cross-next-cable-completed-579953 |archive-date=29 July 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Tokelau has the [[international calling code]] of 690, and has had five-digit telephone numbers from November 2015 (the existing four-digit numbers were prefixed by the digit "2").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pita.org.fj/index.cfm?action=news&cmd=view&id=203833E2-5254-005C-8E72D879D688FD97 |title=Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association |publisher=PITA |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=17 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017050921/http://www.pita.org.fj/index.cfm?action=news&cmd=view&id=203833E2-5254-005C-8E72D879D688FD97 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Tokelau administers the [[.tk]] [[country code top-level domain]], which is one of the most popular domains on the Web.<ref name="crime" />