The Office des Postes et Télécommunication de Nouvelle-Calédonie (OPT) is the dominant player in general and wholesale telecommunications in New Caledonia, however the retail Internet market is extremely competitive. A range of fixed, mobile, and wireless options are available to consumers from five different providers.
New Caledonia has had submarine fibre optic connectivity since the commissioning of its Gondwana-1 cable in 2008, financed by OPT. Gondwana connects Nomeua to Sydney. An additional submarine branch connects New Caledonia's Grand Terre to Lifou, a small island to the North-East.
As with French Polynesia, the government and operators understand the fragility of their single connection to the global Internet. Cable projects including SPIN, Moana, and Hawaiki have proposed redundant connections. A new process to procure redundancy via capacity to Fiji was launched in April 2019 by New Caledonia's government.