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A single international cable, Honotua, has connected Tahiti to Hawaii since from 2010 through 2020. For some of the life of the cable, all traffic was connected directly onwards to the United States, as connectivity to Honolulu and other cables landing in Hawaii was cost prohibitive. Today it is possible to connect directly from Honolulu to Tahiti. Within the island group, a Honotua-extension domestic submarine fibre connects Tahiti to Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, and Bora Bora - however capacity on that cable is limited by both the age of the equipment in use and the distance of some spans of fibre.
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Government and operators in French Polynesia understand understood their single path to the world via Honotua is was tenuous, and an outage could be extremely disruptive to the economy. This has motivated their participation in the Manatua project, which will link since July 2020 has linked French Polynesia to Samoa via the Cook Islands. From Samoa, OPT will be able to purchase onward capacity to the Internet via several different routeshas purchased redundant connectivity via the Hawaiki Cable to Hawaii. Their network is now resilient.
*Vodafone French Polynesia uses IP addresses from OPT, so does not appear in our carrier statistics.