The Office of Post and Telecommunications (OPT, or Office des Postes et Télécommunication) plays a dominant role in French Polynesia's market. They are responsible for all fixed line services, most mobile connections, and the majority of all Internet traffic. They wholly own Vini, the country's largest mobile carrier and ISP. Competitive mobile and broadband networks have made few inroads. Other carriers include Viti and Vodafone French Polynesia*.

A single international cable, Honotua, connected Tahiti to Hawaii 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.

In 2018 the government of French Polynesia began a significant new domestic project called Natitua. This 2500 km cable links Tahiti to Tuamotu - Rangiroa, Manihi, Takaroa, Kaukura, Arutua, Fakarava, Makemo, Hao,  Hiva Oa, and Nuku Hiva. 

Government and operators in French Polynesia understood their single path to the world via Honotua was tenuous, and an outage could be extremely disruptive to the economy. This motivated their participation in the Manatua project, which since July 2020 has linked French Polynesia to Samoa via the Cook Islands. From Samoa, OPT has 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.