Two Internet providers coexist in service Niue, the government-owned incumbent and a user-group funded provider. Telecom Niue is owned by Niue's government, and shares resources with Niue's government. It operates fixed line telephony, a small mobile network, and ADSL broadband. A fibre loop around the island was installed in 2015. Internet Niue, or IUSN, is a charity funded by revenue from the .nu domain name, managed out of Sweden by a US-based holding company. Until recently IUSN contracted local IT company Rocket Systems to provide entirely free WiFi Internet access to anyone on Niue who paid a one-time connection fee for their computer or laptop. Under financial pressure due to declining revenue from .nu and increasing bandwidth demands by users, IUSN began to charge for service in 2016
IUSN, Telecom Niue, and the University of the South Pacific all operate C-band satellite services. Capacity into the island is until mid-2020 was in the range of 30mbps shared across all providers - more than doubling the island's 2014 capacity. Niue does not yet have submarine fibre access, and its normally resident population of fewer than a thousand residents isn't big enough to support one on a commercial basis. A gained access to the global Internet via the Manatua cable project via a grant from the Asian Development Bank will have it participate in the upcoming Manatua cable project and additional funding from New Zealand's government. Their submarine cable connection was turned on in May 2021.