Tonfön
Communications Services | |
| Founded | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Nukuʻalofa, Tonga |
Key people | King George Tupou V, Chairman |
| Products | ISP, phone cards, Tonfön Television |
Tonfön is a Tongan telecommunications company, founded in 2002 by its chairman, (at that time Crown Prince) Tupoutoʻa. It operates as a division of the Shoreline Group of Companies. The umlaut on the second 'o' is not pronounced, but is purely for effect.[1]
Tonfön is one of Tonga's two major telecommunications providers (the other being TCC), offering phone, internet and television services.
The company relies on profit from the sale of
TV set-top boxes enabling subscriber access to seven 24-hour pay-TV channels on Tonfön Television
.
On 16 November 2006, the Shoreline/Tonfön offices located in the
trashed and burned to the ground by rioting pro-democracy protesters.[2] Six people, presumed to be rioters, died in the blaze.[3]
References
- ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
I thought it was arty-farty to have the umlaut
- ^ Fainu, Kalo (2006-11-17). "Violent protests sweep Tongan capital". Archived from the original on 2006-11-20.
- ^ "Police discover first casualties after night of violence and inferno". Radio/TV Tonga News. 2006-11-17. Archived from the original on 2007-01-07.
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